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';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 Post
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 detainedor lost in the desert along the way.
A breath-taking feat of literary virtuosity,Lost Children Archiveis timely, compassionate, subtly hilarious, and formally inventivea powerful, urgent story about what it is to be human in an inhuman world.
