Published : 2021 || Format : print || Location : Colombia ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ What was it about the country that kept everyone hostage to its fantasy? The previous month, on its own soil, an American man went to his job at a plant and gunned down fourteen coworkers, and last spring alone there were four different school shootings. A nation at war with itself, yet people still spoke of it as some kind of paradise.. Thoughts : Infinite Country follows two characters - young Talia, who at the beginning of this book, escapes a girl’s reform school in North Colombia so that she can make her previously booked flight to the US. Before she can do that, she needs to travel many miles to reach her father and get her ticket to the rest of her family. As we follow Talia’s treacherous journey south, we learn about how she ended up in the reform school in the first place and why half her family resides in the US. Infinite Country tells the story of her family through the other protagonist, El
Hosted by MizB at Should be reading , this meme asks you what great books did you hear about/discover this past week? I am typing up this post with near-droopy eyes. I am sleepy, tired, and aching for my bed, while sitting in my lab trying and failing to work. That's my cue to get hit the sack. I came across some interesting books this week, the chunk of which are Orange Prize winners, but I'm only mentioning one of them here. Hidden Wives by Claire Avery I just noticed this some time back on Shelf Awareness . The book synopsis totally had my attention, and the cover looks so serene and beautiful. Fifteen-year-old Sara and her beautiful sister, Rachel, are too young to legally drive a car—but are approaching spinsterhood in Utah’s secret Blood of the Lamb polygamist community. Having long since reached the “age of preparedness,” they will soon be married off to much older men selected by the hidden sect’s revered Prophet. As Sara, chosen to become her uncl