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    Lost Children Archive: A Novel
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    Lost Children Archive: A Novel

    Published by Penguin Random House Audio

    Narrated by Kivlighan De Montebello, Maia Enrigue Luiselli and William DeMeritt

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    About this audiobook

    From the two-time NBCC finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the Southwestern border — an 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.

    Why Apaches? asks the 10-year-old son. Because they were the last of something, answers his father.

    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 US but getting detained — or lost in the desert along the way.

    As the family drives — 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 almost feel beneath their feet. They are led, inexorably, to a grand, harrowing adventure — both in the desert landscape and within the chambers of their own imaginations.

    Told through several compelling voices, blending texts, sounds, and images, Lost Children Archive is an astonishing feat of literary virtuosity. It is a richly engaging story of how we document our experiences and how we remember the things that matter to us the most. With urgency and empathy, it takes us deep into the lives of one remarkable family as it probes the nature of justice and equality today.

    Editor's Note

    On the brink…

    This is a story of a family on the brink of falling apart as they traverse a nation at war with its own values. It’s the story of a woman who wants to document the experiences of children who fled war and violence, only to be kept in cages. It’s an unflinching reflection of our world as it is, even as it employs fiction’s ability to transport and entertain.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 12, 2019
    ISBN9781984840073
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