The Broward Public Library Foundation is a charitable organization incorporated in 1982 committed to enhancing the collections, programs, and services of the Broward County Library beyond the means of public funding. Broward Public Library Foundation is the proud sponsor of the NEA Big Read program striving to achieve a state of excellence throughout the county's family of libraries. NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest. “Told by a chorus of voices and perspectives, this is as much an all-American story as it is a global one” (Booklist). By no means did receiving this book affect my thoughts. This review is based on a review copy provided by the publisher. Through Patricia Engel’s artful story-telling, this family’s story is incredibly timely and will resonate with literary fiction and YA fans alike. Through the intimacies of one family’s story, Engel “challenges us to consider that the United States has always been a place of borders” (Harvard Review of Books). Synopsis: Talia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forested mountains of Colombia after committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have been warranted. Overall, I can easily see Infinite Country among the best books of 2021. With “meticulously rendered descriptions of Andean landscapes and mythology” (New York Times Book Review), Infinite Country is “at once a sweeping love story and tragic drama” (Elle), “forcefully examin what unites a family beyond the divisions borders and policies forge” (Los Angeles Review of Books).

Set in Colombia and the United States and told through the shifting perspectives of each family member, Engel examines the beauty and cruelty of life in the diaspora, crafting “a breathtaking story of the unimaginable prices paid for a better life” (Esquire). In Infinite Country, award-winning author Patricia Engel tells the powerful tale of a family divided. Infinite Country by Patricia Engel follows a mixed-status Colombian family trying to build a better life for themselves.

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