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Patricia Engel is the author of Infinite Country, a New York Times Bestseller and Reese's Book Club pick; 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 a ...more

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	Infinite Country 3.95 avg rating — 40,678 ratings — published 2021 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Veins of the Ocean 3.81 avg rating — 1,843 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vida 3.76 avg rating — 920 ratings — published 2010 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	It's Not Love, It's Just Paris 3.50 avg rating — 919 ratings — published 2013 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Faraway World: Stories 3.92 avg rating — 610 ratings — published 2023 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bridge 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“What was it about the country that kept everyone hostage to its fantasy? The previous month, on its own soil, an American man went to his job at a plant and gunned down fourteen coworkers, and last spring alone there were four different school shootings. A nation at war with itself, yet people still spoke of it as some kind of paradise.”
― Patricia Engel, Infinite Country

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“And maybe there is no nation or citizenry; they’re just territories mapped in place of family, in place of love, the infinite country.”
― Patricia Engel, Infinite Country

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“Emigration was a peeling away of the skin. An undoing. You wake each morning and forget where you are, who you are, and when the world outside shows you your reflection, it's ugly and distorted; you've become a scorned, unwanted creature.”
― Patricia Engel, Infinite Country

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July BoTM Nominations ~ "Hello Sunshine- Reese Witherspoon's Book Club Picks" ~ 1st Poll
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The Sanatorium

by Sarah Pearse

10 votes, 32.3%

This Is How It Always Is

by Laurie Frankel

4 votes, 12.9%

The Scent Keeper

by Erica Bauermeister

3 votes, 9.7%

Whisper Network

by Chandler Baker

3 votes, 9.7%

The Chicken Sisters

by K.J. Dell'Antonia

3 votes, 9.7%

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

by Balli Kaur Jaswal

3 votes, 9.7%

The Jetsetters

by Amanda Eyre Ward

2 votes, 6.5%

Infinite Country

by Patricia Engel

1 vote, 3.2%

The Last Mrs. Parrish

by Liv Constantine

1 vote, 3.2%

The Cactus

by Sarah Haywood

1 vote, 3.2%

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