Infinite Country

“I often wonder if we are living the wrong life in the wrong country.”

And that's one of the thoughts that went through my head all through this story. What does it mean to belong to a place in which you live? How important is it to respect the laws regarding borders when your family is split apart? How can you make a place your home? What is worth risking to be able to be together with those you love? And why does it have to be this way?

The story centers on five members of a family, and each gets a chance to take center stage and tell his story. There are the parents, both born in Colombia, in a time of war and violence there. There are the three children, one born in Colombia, and two born in the US after the parents go there for more opportunity.

There are no heroes in this story, no Edens in which to live, no people who are able to follow all the rules, and that's one of the deepest, truest parts of this book.

There's an intermingling of the story with the old tales of Colombia, too, and that adds much depth to the book.

This is one of those stories that gets better and better, and richer and richer the more you reflect upon it.