![]() Infinity Country is receiving similar praise and has already earned book-club recommendations from Esquire magazine and from actress Reese Witherspoon. She followed that up with two highly acclaimed novels, It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris in 2013, and The Veins of the Ocean in 2016, and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019. Her first book, Vida, a collection of short stories released in 2010, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Fiction Award and the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. Originally from New Jersey, Engel moved to Miami in 2004 to earn her MFA at Florida International University she now teaches at the University of Miami. But this particular family condition was so common it couldn’t possibly be considered trauma. ![]() She told them her mother was abroad and sent her back to Colombia when she was a baby. She’s been involuntarily committed to an Andean institution from which she plots an escape to reunite with her mother and siblings in the States: ![]() ![]() In the first pages, we meet Talia, the eldest of the three children. It's the story of everyone who, at one point in their family lineage, made the move from a there to a here. ![]() Patricia Engel's third novel, Infinite Country, follows a family that finds itself separated between Colombia and the United States for reasons beyond their control. ![]()
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