Lost Children Archive
About this book
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.
Subjects
- american literature
- automobile travel
- emigration and immigration
- families
- family life
- fiction
- fiction / family life
- fiction, family life
- fiction, family life, general
- fiction / literary
- fiction, political
- government policy
- hispanic americans, fiction
- hispanic & latino
- human rights
- illegal alien children
- illegal immigration
- immigrant children
- indians of north america, fiction
- legal status, laws
- literary
- marriage & divorce
- married people
- native american & aboriginal
- new york times reviewed
- noncitizen children
- political science
- social conditions
- undocumented immigrants