u003cbu003eu003cbu003eONE OF THE u003ciu003eNEW YORK TIMESu003c/iu003e 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARu003cbru003e u003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbu003eONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: u003cbru003e THE WASHINGTON POST - TIME MAGAZINE - NPR - CHICAGO TRIBUNE - GQ - O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE - THE GUARDIAN - THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS - LIT HUB - KIRKUS REVIEWS - THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY - BOSTON.COM - PUREWOWu003cbru003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003e "An epic road trip [that also] captures the unruly intimacies of marriage and parenthood...This is a novel that daylights our common humanity, and challenges us to reconcile our differences."u003ciu003e u003c/iu003eu003cbu003e--Kristen Millares Young, u003ciu003eThe Washington Postu003c/iu003eu003cbru003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003e "Impossibly smart, full of beauty, heart and insight...Everyone should read this book."u003cbu003e u003cbu003e--u003c/bu003eTommy Orangeu003c/bu003e u003cpu003e u003c/bu003eIn Valeria Luiselli's fiercely imaginative follow-up to the American Book Award-winning u003ciu003eTell Me How It Endsu003c/iu003e, 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. u003cpu003e 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. u003cpu003e A breath-taking feat of literary virtuosity, u003ciu003eLost Children Archiveu003c/iu003e is timely, compassionate, subtly hilarious, and formally inventive--a powerful, urgent story about what it is to be human in an inhuman world.u003cbu003e u003cpu003eu003c/bu003e
