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Lost Children Archive

Valeria Luiselli

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Lost Children Archive was named one of the New York Times' 10 Best Books of the Year and one of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years. In this fiercely imaginative novel, Valeria Luiselli follows an artist couple as they set out with their two children on a road trip from New York to Arizona in the heat of summer. As the family travels west, the bonds between them begin to fray: a fracture is growing between the parents, one the children can almost feel beneath their feet. Through ephemera such as songs, maps, and a Polaroid camera, the children try to make sense of both their family's crisis and the larger one engulfing the news—the stories of thousands of kids trying to cross the southwestern border into the United States but getting detained, or lost in the desert along the way. A breathtaking feat of literary virtuosity, Lost Children Archive is timely, compassionate, subtly hilarious, and formally inventive—a powerful, urgent story about what it is to be human in an inhuman world.

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Publisher
4th Estate
Year
2019
ISBN-13
9780525520627
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Family and marriage breakdownImmigration and border crisisRoad tripChildhood and memoryIdentity and belonging

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