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A review by thechanelmuse
Infinite Country by Patricia Engel
On the heels of 15-year-old Talia breaking out of a correctional facility run by nuns in the mountains of Colombia, Infinite Country takes an intimate look at a mixed-status family separated for decades between Bogotá, Colombia and the U.S., who endure the twists and turns of the choices they make in hopes of refuge.
This multi-layered literary novel is under 200 pages and packs the punch, reading like nonfiction and showing the effects of criminalizing and/or stripping away the humanity from people in various situations, relegating them to an "other" or seeing through them altogether. Patricia Engel beautifully adds sprinkles of allegory through carried Andean mythology throughout. Sometimes all we have left is the stories we retain to get us through.
This multi-layered literary novel is under 200 pages and packs the punch, reading like nonfiction and showing the effects of criminalizing and/or stripping away the humanity from people in various situations, relegating them to an "other" or seeing through them altogether. Patricia Engel beautifully adds sprinkles of allegory through carried Andean mythology throughout. Sometimes all we have left is the stories we retain to get us through.