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
I'll be off the face of internet (maybe, don't count on it) for three days...
as I drive through the meandering roads all the way from my home in Virginia with close friends
to one of the awesomest nature's paradise on earth in West Virginia.
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And go hike, enjoying the last days of summer (or is it the first days of Fall? But the leaves are still green!)
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And stare at others go river rafting!
Happy Labor day weekend to all who celebrate it and happy weekend to the rest of the world.
(PS: Please don't publish too many posts until I am back.)
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