Lost Children Archive Contributor(s): Luiselli, Valeria (Author) |
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ISBN: 0525436464 ISBN-13: 9780525436461 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Hispanic & Latino - Fiction | Political |
Dewey: 863.7 |
LCCN: 2020438318 |
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.90 lbs) 384 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Family - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Ethnic Orientation - Latino |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE WASHINGTON POST - TIME MAGAZINE - NPR - CHICAGO TRIBUNE - GQ - O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE - THE GUARDIAN - VANITY FAIR - THE ATLANTIC - THE WEEK - THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS - LIT HUB - KIRKUS REVIEWS - THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY - BOSTON.COM - PUREWOW "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 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. |