EAN: 9780525436461

LOST CHILDREN ARCHIVE - VALERIA LUISELLI KARTON...

NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR An epic road trip [that also] captures the unruly
intimacies of marriage and parenthood ... This is a novel that daylights our common humanity 
and challenges us to reconcile our differences. The Washington PostOne of The Atlantic s Great
American Novels of the Past 100 Years In Valeria Luiselli s fiercely imaginative follow-up to
the American Book Award-winning Tell Me How It Ends  an artist couple 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
breath-taking 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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