![]() And so how much of this writing came from your own experience?ĮNGEL: I could say in some ways everything, and I could say in some ways very little. And from what I understand, your own family has members, relatives in both of those countries. And she has one week to get back to Bogota because a plane ticket is waiting for her to finally get to the United States and be reunited with her mother and her other siblings after so many years apart.ĪRI SHAPIRO, BYLINE: And so the book is in part an adventure story but at its core is this family that straddles two countries, divided between Colombia and the U.S. So Talia has lived 15 years away from her mother, and where "Infinite Country" begins, she is locked up in a penitentiary for young girls. But she was actually born in the United States and sent back to Bogota, her mother's hometown, as a baby as her mother tried to make way, make a better life for her other two children, Karina and Nando. PATRICIA ENGEL: Talia is a 15-year-old girl who is living in Bogota, Colombia. Our co-host Ari Shapiro spoke to her about the main character in this book, a teenager named Talia. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this story, the central family has one foot in Colombia and one in the U.S. It's an ongoing process, a constant flow of people across borders. In the new novel "Infinite Country," immigration is not a single event that happens at a point in time. ![]()
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