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
We all start out so damn sure, thinking we've got the world on a string. If we ever stopped to think about the infinite number of ways we could be undone, we'd never leave our bedrooms. When Judd Foxman's father dies, his entire family arrives at his childhood home to sit shiva for seven days. It's been years since this family has been together and it is immediately obvious that they cannot really stand each other. Newly separated from his wife, Jen, after finding her in bed with his boss, Judd arrives alone, aware that he is currently the talk of the neighborhood. As he tries to put his life in order, it is thrown into shambles again when Jen comes announcing that she is pregnant. With his baby. A baby they've been waiting for forever. Eldest brother, Paul, and his wife, Alice, have been trying to have a baby for years - a fact that Alice doesn't let Judd forget seeing as Jen has managed to get pregnant twice. His younger brother, Phillip, who has not m