Infinite Country is the latest hit-novel by Patricia Engel. It centers around Elena and Mauro, a couple who meet in their home country of Colombia and overstay their work visas in the United States. This book follows all of their loved ones who are impacted by this choice as they navigate moments in history. The mixed-status family draws parallels amongst wishes across the decades, even if the situations are completely opposite. All to say, this book will keep you on the edge of your seat for all of its 200 pages.

To say that I fell in love with this book is an understatement. I have never felt more informed or impassioned after reading a work of fiction, and Engel’s impeccable writing is at the forefront of my feelings. Even when I didn’t agree with choices that characters were making, I completely believed that they would make that decision. I felt gripped by all members of the family, and have spent most of my days since this book researching Colombian mythological creatures.

If you loved - A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende, The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Bride of the Sea by Eman Quotah, The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba by Chanel Cleeton, or The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett - you will love Infinite Country!

This was an incredible story full of injustice, love, loss, and what it means to be a family. I was captivated by Talia's story from page one! I had to know if she made it to America and, without giving anything away, really enjoyed how the book wrapped up. Elena and Mauro's story had its ups and downs for me. There were parts that were engaging but some that seemed to drag on. Toward the end, we hear from Talia's siblings who were raised in America, and while I loved getting their perspective, I thought it was a little confusing. I often didn't know who was talking until a ways into the chapter and felt like I had to go back and start the chapter over. Other than a particularly horrific scene with a cat and these small things, I thought it was a fab, fast read!

The narrator was incredible! Loved her voice and her storytelling.