Lost Children Archive

(Paperback)

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WINNER OF THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD AND THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND THE WOMENS PRIZE

The moving, powerful and urgent English-language debut from one of the brightest young stars in world literature
Suppose you and Pa were gone, and we were lost. What would happen then

A family in New York packs the car and sets out on a road trip. This will be the last journey they ever take together.

In Central America and Mexico, thousands of children are on a journey of their own, travelling north to the US border. Not all of them will make it there.

Reviews

'Fascinating, haunting, poetic' Sunday Times

A mould-breaking new classic The novel truly becomes novel again in her hands electric, elastic, alluring, new New York Times

Daring, wholly original, brilliant a twist on the great American road trip novel, a book about alienation that chronicles fractures, divides, and estrangement NPR

Timely and poignant Vogue

A wonderfully subtle story in which the experience of migrant children is filtered through the delicate, funny, effortlessly poetic account of a familys road trip from New York to the Mexican border Guardian

Roving and beautiful a searing indictment of Americas border policy' Daily Mail

Powerful and urgent Stylist

Author Bio

Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983. She is the author of the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth, which won the 2016 LA Times Book Prize for Fiction; the essay collection Sidewalks; and Tell Me How It Ends, an essay about the situation faced by children arriving at the US-Mexico border without papers. Lost Children Archive is her first novel written in English.