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
Sheila @ One Persons Journey through a world of Books wants to know what we're reading. I'm only too happy to oblige! I feel like I had a really good reading/blogging week, but that hasn't really translated in number. But at least I'm on a reading spree, plus I have so many books due back at the library this week. My library allows only one renewal, and I've already done it. Boo! Books completed in the last week Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld : Enjoyed this second book as much as the first! This series is turning out to be real fun! The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon : Not one of the best books I've read on women issues set against a backdrop of war or violence, but certainly a moving inspirational story. News from over my blog Leif Reads! Last post of February. This month, the focus was on Eaarth by Bill McKibben. Last week's post was on