Lost Children Archive - Valeria Luiselli
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Kivlighan de Montebello
Tags: General Fiction, Novel, Contemporary, Adults
From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative 2019 novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern borderan indelible journey told with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity., A mother and father set out with their two children, a boy and a girl, driving from New York to Arizona in the heat of summer. Their destination: Apacheria, the place the Apaches once called home., In their car, they play games and sing along to music. But on the radio, there is news about an immigration crisis: thousands of kids trying to cross the southwestern border into the United States, but getting detainedor lost in the desert along the way., As the family drivesthrough Virginia to Tennessee, across Oklahoma and Texaswe sense they are on the brink of a crisis of their own. A fissure is growing between the parents, one the children can almost feel beneath their feet. They are led, inexorably, t
