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Lost Children Archive : A Novel by Luiselli, Valeria is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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**From the two-time NBCC Finalist, a fiercely imaginative novel about a family's summer road trip across America--a journey that, with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity, probes the nature of justice and equality in America today.**A mother and father set out with their kids from New York to Arizona. In their used Volvo--and with their ten-year-old son trying out his new Polaroid camera--the family is heading for the Apacheria: the region the Apaches once called home, and where the ghosts of Geronimo and Cochise might still linger. The father, a sound documentarist, hopes to gather an "inventory of echoes" from this historic, mythic place. The mother, a radio journalist, becomes consumed by the news she hears on the car radio, about the thousands of children trying to reach America but getting stranded at the southern border, held in detention centers, or being sent back to their homelands, to an unknown fate. But as the family drives farther west--through Virginia to Tennessee, across Oklahoma and Texas--we sense they are on the brink of a crisis of their own. A fissure is growing between the parents, one the children can feel beneath their feet. They are

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Author
Luiselli, Valeria
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published
2019
Language
EN
ISBN
9780525520610
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance
Rating
4.1 / 5 (2,273 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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