Lost Children Archive
Lost Children Archive
Valeria Luiselli
Barack Obama
Barack Obama's favorite books of 2019 list.
Natalie Portman
It’s gorgeous, poetic, inventive, and political. - Natalie Portman
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Lost Children Archive

Lost Children Archive

Valeria Luiselli
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Valeria Luiselli
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In "Lost Children Archive," Valeria Luiselli weaves a poignant and imaginative tale that captures the essence of a family's transformative journey across the American landscape, against the backdrop of a harrowing immigration crisis. As a mother and father, along with their young son and daughter, embark on a road trip from New York to Arizona, their quest to visit Apacheria—the once home of the Apaches—becomes a profound exploration of history, loss, and the echoes of displacement. The family's intimate journey through the heart of America is interlaced with the stark realities of children attempting to cross the southwestern border, creating a narrative that is as unsettling as it is beautiful. Through the novel's lyrical prose and innovative structure, Luiselli challenges the boundaries of storytelling, blending voices, texts, and images to craft a deeply engaging story of memory, identity, and survival. "Lost Children Archive" is not just a reflection on a national crisis but a meditation on the fragility of family, the complexity of home, and the indelible marks of history on the present. With its compelling blend of personal and political landscapes, Luiselli's novel is a testament to the power of empathy and the urgent need for humanity in times of despair.

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Released
2019
12 Feb
Length
385
Pages

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It’s gorgeous, poetic, inventive, and political. - Natalie Portman
Barack Obama's favorite books of 2019 list.
Children force parents to go out looking for a specific pulse, a gaze, a rhythm, the right way of telling the story, knowing that stories don't fix anything or save anyone but maybe make the world both more complex and more tolerable. And sometimes, just sometimes, more beautiful. Stories are a way of subtracting the future from the past, the only way of finding clarity in hindsight.
— Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive

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