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
Gene Luen Yang's Boxers and Saints is set against the Boxers Rebellion in 1890s China. In Boxers , Little Bao is so enamored by the kung fu strategies shown by a visitor that he secretly trains under him and becomes highly skilled. Around the same time, the winds bring plenty of news about how the foreign Christians in China are mercilessly killing several Chinese people. When things reach almost tragic proportions in his own village, he harnesses the power of a ritual to take on some heavenly power to crush the enemy. There begins the Boxer rebellion. After training several people, they head to the capital to slaughter the 'foreign devils'. A strip from Boxers Saints provides the other side of the picture. Four-girl, named thus because she was the unwanted fourth daughter born to her mother and never given a proper name, feels oppressed by her family. Eventually, she discovers Christianity and how much it has to offer her. Running away from her apathetic fam