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
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this meme asks you what great books did you hear about/discover this
past week? Every week, I post three selections, and choose one among
them as my pick to read, should I choose among the three books.
Another week of some really great finds - some truly new, some reiterated.
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
I've been reminded repeatedly by Barnes and Noble, and Borders that this is THE new bestseller, and that I should put in my order right away. I guess they did succeed in getting me to make this my top pick this week, but I'm trying, really trying not to buy it, telling myself all those well-meaning dialogues about too many books at home, and busy till the end of year, etc. The synopsis sounds too exciting, and I'm already itching to read it and find out what happens. I already have $150 worth in gift cards (which apparently I'm saving for a rainy day or a possible apocalypse) - I just might cave in.
In the late 1970s in rural Mississippi, Larry Ott and Silas "32" Jones were boyhood pals. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry, the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, single black mother. Yet for a few months the boys stepped outside of their circumstances and shared a special bond. But then tragedy struck: Larry took a girl on a date to a drive-in movie, and she was never heard from again. She was never found and Larry never confessed, but all eyes rested on him as the culprit. The incident shook the county—and perhaps Silas most of all. His friendship with Larry was broken, and then Silas left town. More than twenty years have passed. Larry, a mechanic, lives a solitary existence, never able to rise above the whispers of suspicion. Silas has returned as a constable. He and Larry have no reason to cross paths until another girl disappears and Larry is blamed again. And now the two men who once called each other friend are forced to confront the past they've buried and ignored for decades. |
Great House by Nicole Krauss
I just love this cover. That alone is making me want to pick it up and read it. I heard of this one first on a podcast (Sorry, I forgot which one - I have to do a better job of keeping track). And then I've been seeing it cropping everywhere!
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Hiroshima in the Morning by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
Another cover love here. (Are books really getting dressed in better covers nowadays or am I just happening to pick the ones with good covers?) This sounds like a wonderful memoir to me.
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