Many people feel an urge to define and to categorize in order to understand.
Very early in my life I was made to feel both excluded and embraced by the two countries and cultures that formed me, and there were others, still, who had no idea what to do with me. The idea of belonging or not belonging is so tied to the idea of country and borders.
Did this sense of liminality affect your writing? A Conversation with Patricia Engel about her novel Infinite Country.Īs a dual citizen of the United States and Colombia, the daughter of Colombian immigrants, and an award-winning author of the Latin America diaspora, you are intimately familiar with the in-betweenness of the lives you depict in Infinite Country.
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