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Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
5.0

Holy Christmas!

Brilliant and harrowing.

A family road trip, the mother and a father on separate missions, though both intent on documenting their lives. A ten year old boy, and his five year five old sister. Both children from different marriages. Devoted to one another, as their parents are not.

Graceland, Elvis, Apaches, Eagle Warriors - dreams, hallucinations, and the echoes of dreams, and hallucinations.

The American Southwest. A ride on the Beast bringing immigrants to the desert crossing.

Lost children, and a stream of consciousness nightmare in luminous prose.

Amazing, amazing, amazing.