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3.82 AVERAGE
3.82 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Smart and contemporary, Lost Children Archive is an unconventional Great American Road Trip novel with sobering originality.
Though it starts with a marriage and a family, Lost Children Archive evolves beyond the marital. Each person in the car has packed a box of belongings. Well, the adults (at first). The narrator becomes deeply interested in helping a woman back in New York find her missing refugee daughters. As they drive deeper into the south, her own children become braided into her desire to help. The story really evolves around the objects in the boxes in subtle and major ways. Luiselli has woven these influences into the story in a powerful but complicated way. This was not an easy read for me, but it was extremely captivating and original.
The story climaxes with a powerful single-sentence chapter with stunning perspective changes and intense imagery. In fact, this portion set the story over the top for me despite some of its faults. Luiselli continues to publish unique and inspiring books and I look forward to what she does next.
Though it starts with a marriage and a family, Lost Children Archive evolves beyond the marital. Each person in the car has packed a box of belongings. Well, the adults (at first). The narrator becomes deeply interested in helping a woman back in New York find her missing refugee daughters. As they drive deeper into the south, her own children become braided into her desire to help. The story really evolves around the objects in the boxes in subtle and major ways. Luiselli has woven these influences into the story in a powerful but complicated way. This was not an easy read for me, but it was extremely captivating and original.
The story climaxes with a powerful single-sentence chapter with stunning perspective changes and intense imagery. In fact, this portion set the story over the top for me despite some of its faults. Luiselli continues to publish unique and inspiring books and I look forward to what she does next.
adventurous
emotional
informative
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Listening to the audio book along with reading this book added so much to the experience with the production utilizing the characteristics of the work of the narrator and her husband as well as having a young boy read for the son and Luiselli’s daughter as the narrator’s daughter.
Filosofische, politieke en emotionele snaren allemaal aangeslagen!
adventurous
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
While the background story of immigration and "lost children," is compelling in it's own way, the forefront of this story focuses on a touching family story. It is with the combination of these two that Lost Children Archive works as a book. This book is trying to say a lot, sometimes what feels like too much, but in the end even if you don't pick on all of the overabundance of allusions and references that range from Lord of the Flies to Dolly Parton, there will still be something there for everyone to connect to in some way. Also the book got way less interesting once we changed perspectives from the mother I wish we had just stayed with her.
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated