Lost Children Archive
Valeria Luiselli · 2019
A family drives from New York to the Arizona border while the child migrant crisis unfolds. Luiselli's formally inventive novel about borders, family, and documentation is a vital political novel of the period, written with experimental rigor and moral urgency.
The case against
Luiselli's narrator annotates her own road trip with boxed inventories and reading lists, and the citational apparatus keeps elbowing the migrant children it means to honor toward the margins; the novel knows this, worries about it on the page, and does it anyway. The ten-year-old who takes over the telling sounds like nobody's ten-year-old.
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