It was her idea to tie up the nun.
Infinite Country, Patricia Engel, Simon & Schuster 2021
Less than 160 pages and I still walk around with it a couple days after finishing it. I don’t know if I consciously gravitate towards migrant stories and the generations after, but once again it doesn’t disappoint.
What Infinite Country adds is the clear question of “What’s so great about the USA anyway?”. It’s not the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for anyone involved, and the place the family comes from (Colombia) isn’t viewed as a crap shoot essential to escape from.
Combine this with a family literally ripped apart based on their place of birth and there’s something fresh and uncanny about this short story.
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