

The Broward Public Library Foundation is a charitable organization incorporated in 1982 committed to enhancing the collections, programs, and services of the Broward County Library beyond the means of public funding. Broward Public Library Foundation is the proud sponsor of the NEA Big Read program striving to achieve a state of excellence throughout the county's family of libraries. NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest. “Told by a chorus of voices and perspectives, this is as much an all-American story as it is a global one” (Booklist).

Through the intimacies of one family’s story, Engel “challenges us to consider that the United States has always been a place of borders” (Harvard Review of Books). With “meticulously rendered descriptions of Andean landscapes and mythology” (New York Times Book Review), Infinite Country is “at once a sweeping love story and tragic drama” (Elle), “forcefully examin what unites a family beyond the divisions borders and policies forge” (Los Angeles Review of Books). Infinite Country is all about making escapes from one place to another, and about what is left behind. Set in Colombia and the United States and told through the shifting perspectives of each family member, Engel examines the beauty and cruelty of life in the diaspora, crafting “a breathtaking story of the unimaginable prices paid for a better life” (Esquire). In Infinite Country, award-winning author Patricia Engel tells the powerful tale of a family divided.
