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
And so it was only natural that I would marry the most run-of-the-mill woman in the world. As for women who were pretty, intelligent, strikingly sensual, the daughters of rich families - they would only have served to disrupt my carefully ordered existence. Two things attracted me to The Vegetarian . 1. The strangely simplistic premise of it (how much can one write about turning vegetarian) and 2. Seeing it in Lauren Groff's favorites list . As soon as the book arrived, I pretty much dived into it. Yeong-Hye wasn't a particularly remarkable woman, according to her husband. He thought she was too plain and that she had a "passive personality". He had never particularly cared about whom he would marry. He had wanted a woman who will take care of his daily needs but not stimulate him intellectually. It suited him just fine that "she didn't get worked up if I happened to be late" or that he didn't have to worry about his paunch or his skinny fram