Infinite Country A Novel

Infinite Country is a novel that tells the story of a Colombian family ripped apart by migration and deportation. Elena and Mauro fall in love as teenagers in Bogotá and, after the birth of their first daughter, Karina, they travel to the United States on a temporary tourist visa in search of a better life. Once in America, they have two more children, Nando and Talia, who are born as U.S. citizens. Their decision to overstay their visa plunges them into the precarity of undocumented status, culminating in Mauro's deportation back to Colombia and the family's separation, with Elena and the two older children remaining in New Jersey, while Talia is sent to live with her grandmother in Bogotá. The novel's central narrative is framed by the youngest daughter, Talia, who is being held in a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the Colombian mountains after an impulsive act of violence. She urgently needs to escape and travel back to her father in Bogotá to catch a flight to the U.S. that would allow her to finally reunite with her mother and siblings. The story shifts in perspective to explore the lives and circumstances of all five family members, rich with Colombian life and the daily reality of the undocumented in America, examining the complexities of home, sacrifice, and the American Dream.

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