“Don’t tell me I’m undocumented when my name is tattooed on my father’s arm.”

Infinite Country tells the story of a family torn apart by their shared desire for a dream of a better life in America.

The story begins with Talia's escape from a "prison school" for girls who have committed violent crimes. She makes her way across Columbia back to the small apartment home she shares with her father in Bogota so that she won't miss her flight to the United States, to her new home where her mother and sister and brother live. Talia's parents and older sister, Karina, were all born in Columbia. Nando and Talia were born in the United States. But once ICE deports Talia's father, Mauro, the family is split, quite possibly forever. Elena can't handle raising three small children and working full time, so infant Talia was sent to Columbia to live with her father and her mother's mother.

Can Talia bring herself to trade the life she knows with her father for a distant vision of the future and a mother she can only remember from phone calls and facetime? And if she does, will she ever see her father again?

Infinite Country is an unflinching look at the pain of being "undocumented" and of living as a transplant in a land that isn't your own and doesn't claim you the way you wish to claim it. This book brings home the threat of living of in America that so many of us do not see because we do not wish to see. When family in war torn countries worry about the random mass violence here, are we in the United States any more safe? Are we the haven we claim to be?