Patricia Engel, INFINITE COUNTRY
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
“Diaspora is the world’s condition.” Patricia Engel talks with Zibby about growing up the daughter of immigrants, the ingrained pull of an ancestral homeland, and the doubts that haunt those who uproot in search of a better future.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
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| 0:34.8 | Okay, now back to this amazing podcast. |
| 0:38.1 | Patricia Engle is the author of The Vains of the Ocean, winner of the Dayton Literary |
| 0:42.5 | Peace Prize. It's not love, it's just Paris, winner of an international Latino |
| 0:46.9 | book award, and Vita, a finalist for the Penn, Hemingway, and Young Lions Fiction Awards, |
| 0:52.1 | New York Times Notable Book and winner of Columbia's |
| 0:54.4 | National Book Award, the Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Columbiana. And this book that we're |
| 1:00.0 | talking about today is called Infinite Country. She is a recipient of fellowships from the |
| 1:04.5 | Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her stories appear in the |
| 1:08.3 | Best American Short Stories, the Best American Mystery Stories, |
| 1:11.9 | the O'Henry Prize, and elsewhere. Born to Colombian parents, Patricia teaches creative writing |
| 1:16.5 | at the University of Miami. Welcome. Patricia, thank you so much for coming on Mom's Don't |
| 1:21.0 | have time to read books. Thank you so much for having me. I'm a fan of your show. Oh, I'm so glad to hear that. |
| 1:26.1 | Thank you. Okay, Infinite Country. Tell me |
| 1:29.7 | about this book. Can you tell listeners what it's about? And then I'd love to hear what inspired |
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