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
The thing to do was to insult her or slap her or run her out into the night. She’d left him with all their children. She was holding another man’s baby in her arms. Anyone would agree that he ought to do something terrible to her, but she had been gone fifteen hours, and in that fifteen hours his life had crumbled like a lump of dry earth. Fifteen-year old Hattie Shepherd leaves her home in Georgia and migrates to Philadelphia with her mother and two sisters, hoping for a better life. What she sees in her newly adopted home state astounds her - blacks and whites walking side by side, a black woman looking at a white flower vendor man in the eye and not getting attacked when she accidentally drops one of his arrangements, no black cowering when a white person passes by, etc. This more thankful life is what she wants, and yet, she ends up getting married to a good-for-nothing, womanizer and bearing eleven children. Still, the birth of her first two children - twins - brings a new