#InfiniteCountry

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Monday is book haul day!! 😂 Hello everyone and welcome to another book haul post. These gorgeous hardbacks are the latest additions to my collection. I’ve already read Ariadne as a buddy read with the lovely @keeperofpages and we loved it! Review coming at some point 😅 The other two books, Infinite Country and Threadneedle have intrigued me since I first heard about them and of course, the beautiful cover art meant they had to be mine!! As always, I’d love to know your thoughts on any of these books or authors. Let’s have a chat in the comments! Have a lovely week everyone 🤗😘 #bookstagram #bookrecommendations #bookhaul #bookhoarder #bookaddict #bookaholic #beautifulhardbacks #ariadne #jennifersaint #infinitecountry #patriciaengel #threadneedle #carithomas #booksonmytbr #bookstagrammer https://www.instagram.com/p/CQZHi1pLXvX/?utm_medium=tumblr

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5 Questions with Patricia Engel, Author of Infinite Country

Patricia Engel is the author of The Veins of the Ocean, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; It's Not Love, It's Just Paris, winner of the International Latino Book Award; and Vida, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway and Young Lions Fiction Awards, New York Times Notable Book, and winner of Colombia's national book award, the Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her stories appear in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Mystery Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and elsewhere. Born to Colombian parents, Patricia teaches creative writing at the University of Miami. 

Patricia Engel is joined by Roberto Lovato, Jean Guerrero, and Juliana Delgado Lopera to celebrate the launch of her new novel Infinite Country, published by Simon & Schuster, in our City Lights LIVE! discussion series on Thursday, March 18th

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Where are you writing to us from?

I'm at my apartment in Miami, which has been my home base for the past seventeen years.

What’s kept you sane during the pandemic?

Gratitude for my good health and stability amid so much chaos and uncertainty. On the daily, it's long walks, sunlight, checking in with my husband, family and friends, sharing laughter and finding small reasons to celebrate life.

What are 3 books you always recommend to people?

Here are three by incredible Colombian writers: Oblivion (El olvido que seremos) by Hector Abad Faciolince, The Bitch (La perra) by Pilar Quintana, and Rosario Tijeras by Jorge Franco.

Which writers, artists, and others influence your work in general, and this book, specifically?

My general influences are those that arrived earliest in my life: Albert Camus, Anais Nin, Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, Laura Restrepo, Maryse Condé, and Pablo Neruda, to name a few. With Infinite Country, I wanted to write a slim, compressed novel that spanned years, decades, and generations, but still felt urgent, like a single held breath. Books that I admire that accomplish that are Sula by Toni Morrison, In the Beginning was the Sea by Tómas González, Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín, The Lover by Marguerite Duras, and Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector.

If you opened a bookstore, where would it be located, what would it be called, and what would your bestseller be?

This is one of my quiet dreams. I'm not sure where I would open it but I would probably name it after one of my childhood cats, Camus. Certain bestsellers, because I would likely push them on every customer, would be Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat and Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl.

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New week. New Bookmail. Thank you @avidreaderpress for this beautiful tote and new great reads. QOTD: What is your most recent bookmail or current read? 📚📚FEATURED📚📚 📙 Infinite Country by Patricia Engel (Out 3/2) 📕 Animal by Lisa Taddeo (Out 6/8) 📗 Falling by T.J. Newman (Out 7/6) 📘 Leonora in the Morning Light by Michael Carter (Out 4/6) #Bookmail #AvidReadersPress #bookstack #newreleases #ARCs #comingsoon #booksbooksbooks #bookfeature #whattoread #Animal #bookdragon #booksoutside #Falling #bookphotos #bookish #bookworm #LeonoraintheMorning #bibliophile #InfiniteCountry #Springbooks #sunnydays #gifted #partner #bookaddict #readingiscool #TBR #womenauthors #newbooks #Readwomen #bookstoread (at Bushwick) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNS3UomLRSS/?igshid=1wx43a0zj63r1

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I'm a moody reader so one of the first things I do to help me choose my next book is to read the first line. Infinite Country has already caught my attention with this first line: " It was her idea to tie up the line ". QOTD: What is the first line of your current read? 🇨🇴 SYNOPSIS 🇨🇴 At the dawn of the new millennium, Colombia is a country devastated by half a century of violence. Elena and Mauro are teenagers when they meet, their blooming love an antidote to the mounting brutality of life in Bogotá. Once their first daughter is born, and facing grim economic prospects, they set their sights on the United States. They travel to Houston and send wages back to Elena’s mother, all the while weighing whether to risk overstaying their tourist visas or to return to Bogotá. As their family expands, and they move again and again, their decision to ignore their exit dates plunges the young family into the precariousness of undocumented status, the threat of discovery menacing a life already strained. When Mauro is deported, Elena, now tasked with caring for their three small children, makes a difficult choice that will ease her burdens but splinter the family even further. Award-winning, internationally acclaimed author Patricia Engel, herself the daughter of Colombian immigrants and a dual citizen, gives voice to Mauro and Elena, as well as their children, Karina, Nando, and Talia—each one navigating a divided existence, weighing their allegiance to the past, the future, to one another, and to themselves. Rich with Bogotá urban life, steeped in Andean myth, and tense with the daily reality for the undocumented in America, Infinite Country is the story of two countries and one mixed-status family—for whom every triumph is stitched with regret and every dream pursued bears the weight of a dream deferred. #LatinxBookstagram #LatinxAuthor #ownvoices #dignidadliteraria #ColombianLit #Colombianauthor #InfiniteCountry #PatriciaEngel #bookstagram #bookdragon #booksoutside #booksonthego #comingsoon #readLatinxbooks #bookphotos #bookish #books #BooksofIG #booksbooksbooks #bibliophile #Ilovebooks #Latinx #AvidPressBooks #Latinxfiction #Bookishsunsets (at The Shops at Atlas Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKAVVkQAhKJ/?igshid=1jkwmtgwp9kv0