What Fiction are you reading this week, June 9, 2024?

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Patricia Engel – Infinite Country
Talia escapes from a juvenile correction facility in Colombia, after committing a crime that may not have been a crime at all. Her parents once overstayed their visas in the US to live away from the drug violence back home, but her father was deported. Meanwhile, her mother remains in America with their other children. Mom has sent her daughter a plane ticket to get to the US, supposedly to safety and being with her family again—but how did she get to Colombia while her siblings stayed in America? I’m sure we’ll get the answers, and that they won’t be easy. Thank goodness it’s a relatively short read. As a companion, I’ll be reading The Undocumented Americans, a non-fiction work by Karla Villavicencio, also a short read.

Dashiell Hammett – The Maltese Falcon
Hammett was instrumental in creating the noir genre with this gritty tale of a hard-boiled detective, a stolen treasure, the expected corpse, a v. creepy criminal, and a double-dealing (in more ways than one) dame. An assembly of so many unlikable people in one book is usually a slog to read, but I have a feeling this one won’t be.

As for the MS Victoria. 6000 books? Is that all? Pfft.