Lost children archive : a novel / Valeria Luiselli.
2019
PQ7298.422.U37 L67 2019 (Mapit)
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Title
Lost children archive : a novel / Valeria Luiselli.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780525520610 (hardcover)
0525520619 (hardcover)
0525520619 (hardcover)
Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
Language
English
Description
383 pages : illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm
Call Number
PQ7298.422.U37 L67 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
863/.7
Summary
"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 led, inexorably, to a grand, unforgettable adventure--both in the harsh desert landscape and within the chambers of their own imaginations. Told through the voices of the mother and her son, as well as through a stunning tapestry of collected texts and images--including prior stories of migration and displacement--Lost Children Archive is a story of how we document our experiences, and how we remember the things that matter to us the most. Blending the personal and the political with astonishing empathy, it is a powerful, wholly original work of fiction: exquisite, provocative, and deeply moving"-- Provided by publisher.
"A novel about a family of four, on the cusp of fracture, who take a trip across America--a story told through varying points of view, and including archival documents and photographs"-- Provided by publisher.
"A novel about a family of four, on the cusp of fracture, who take a trip across America--a story told through varying points of view, and including archival documents and photographs"-- Provided by publisher.
Note
"This is a Borzoi Book."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Awards
Carnegie Medal, 2020.
Available in Other Form
Online version: 9780525520627
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Table of Contents
Part 1 : FAMILY SOUNDSCAPE
Relocations
Box I
Routes & Roots
Box II
Undocumented
Box III
Missing
Box IV
Removals
Part II : REENACTMENT
Deportations
Maps & Boxes
Box V
Continental Divide
Lost
Part III : APACHERIA
Dust Valleys
Heart of Light
Echo Canyon
Part IV : LOST CHILDREN ARCHIVE
Box VI
Document
Box VII
Relocations
Box I
Routes & Roots
Box II
Undocumented
Box III
Missing
Box IV
Removals
Part II : REENACTMENT
Deportations
Maps & Boxes
Box V
Continental Divide
Lost
Part III : APACHERIA
Dust Valleys
Heart of Light
Echo Canyon
Part IV : LOST CHILDREN ARCHIVE
Box VI
Document
Box VII