They are torn over what they want as far as their permanent home and future goals go. The issue was that I was unsure about what I should be rooting for. As a reader I cared about the characters, and wanted them to succeed. We see how immigration laws can pull a family apart, and what situations might lead a mother to send her infant daughter away to grow up in a separate country. In traveling to the United States though, she leaves behind her father, Mauro, who raised her jointly with her grandmother in Bogata.Īs Talia makes her journey, we are filled in on the history of the family before they became split up. Her mother Elena and two older siblings wait for her there, a reunion 15 years in the making. It begins in present-day times with the youngest child, Talia, whose goal is to escape a correctional facility and make it to Bogata in time for a flight to the United States. Infinite Country follows the lives of an immigrant family split between Columbia and the United States.
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