zelagnumdg9068 's review for:

Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli

3.0

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I went into reading this book expecting there to be a much greater focus on migrant children and their experiences at the border. There actually isn’t a whole lot of that, outside of some meta-fictional, story within a story, elements. This is more of a familial drama with a narrator who seems detached from everything around her and her struggle with how to tell a story about migrant children. I think, in this way, my expectations kept me waiting for something that this book wasn’t supposed to deliver, so I couldn’t truly enjoy it. Between this and the detached narrative style it was hard for me to grow attached to anything that was happening. Eventually there is a narrator shift that was much more interesting to me and saved the book but overall there was too much going on to feel satisfied.