Talia's parents, Mauro and Elena, fall in love, have their first child, and move to Texas in barely more pages than it takes Talia to leave the reform school. Often, she covers a period of years in only a few pages.
In swift chapters that bounce between characters and chronologies, Engel moves from Talia's parents' courtship to their emigration to their forced split, and traces their fight afterwards to survive as individuals, and as a family.īook Reviews For Fall's Dark Days, 3 Tales In Translation To Match The MoodĮngel packs a lot of event and emotion into a slim novel. Infinite Country is less concerned with Talia's quest to reunite with her family, though, than with the choices and circumstances - and cruel immigration policies - that led to their initial separation. Her mother and siblings, Karina and Nando, live in New Jersey, where Talia is finally set to join them.
Talia was born in the United States, but raised by her father and grandmother in Colombia. In only a few pages, Engel makes abundantly clear that Talia is more than equipped to escape the nuns and make her way back to Bogotá, where she has a plane to catch. In the first chapter of Patricia Engel's third novel, Infinite Country, a 15-year-old girl named Talia breaks free from a nun-managed reform school in the Colombian mountains.
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