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A review by biblio_jordyn
Infinite Country by Patricia Engel
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
📚Book Review📚
Infinite Country follows a Colombian family torn apart and fractured by deportation. This story starts with Elena and Mauro when they meet and fall in love in Colombia, a country plagued with violence, their trip to the US with their daughter, their two US born children being delivered, their precarious position as they fall into undocumented status, Mauro’s deportation and Elena’s hard choice to send one of her children back to Colombia to be cared for by her mother to ease some of her burdens being without Mauro in the US, and everything after that. This story is told from the FIVE perspectives of the family.
This is a book, the more time I spend away from it, the more I appreciate how important it is.
This book gives a voice to these people, several in fact. You get to hear from the parents and the children, giving a unique perspective to the struggles and the culture of this community.
This book is less than 200 pages, but leaves a lasting impression. My heart hurt for this family and these people. The discrimination, prejudice, and hard choices they constantly have to make made me want hug them.
I will say, this book felt like a U. It packed a punch in the beginning, felt like it got a little egh in the middle and packed another punch the last third of the book, I wish it was more captivating the whole read but that may have been the perspective changes and me connecting to some characters more than others.
However, I’m so glad I read it. It felt very real. The fear, the sadness, the love, the constant conflicting emotions of these families felt real. What they experienced was real, I could see real families, the ones who have been torn apart by their loved ones in this book.
This book was a kaleidoscope, so many moving pieces and unclear at first but a perfect image created at the end.
Infinite Country follows a Colombian family torn apart and fractured by deportation. This story starts with Elena and Mauro when they meet and fall in love in Colombia, a country plagued with violence, their trip to the US with their daughter, their two US born children being delivered, their precarious position as they fall into undocumented status, Mauro’s deportation and Elena’s hard choice to send one of her children back to Colombia to be cared for by her mother to ease some of her burdens being without Mauro in the US, and everything after that. This story is told from the FIVE perspectives of the family.
This is a book, the more time I spend away from it, the more I appreciate how important it is.
This book gives a voice to these people, several in fact. You get to hear from the parents and the children, giving a unique perspective to the struggles and the culture of this community.
This book is less than 200 pages, but leaves a lasting impression. My heart hurt for this family and these people. The discrimination, prejudice, and hard choices they constantly have to make made me want hug them.
I will say, this book felt like a U. It packed a punch in the beginning, felt like it got a little egh in the middle and packed another punch the last third of the book, I wish it was more captivating the whole read but that may have been the perspective changes and me connecting to some characters more than others.
However, I’m so glad I read it. It felt very real. The fear, the sadness, the love, the constant conflicting emotions of these families felt real. What they experienced was real, I could see real families, the ones who have been torn apart by their loved ones in this book.
This book was a kaleidoscope, so many moving pieces and unclear at first but a perfect image created at the end.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Racial slurs, Racism, and Rape
Moderate: Alcoholism and Violence