Lost Children Archive

Resumen del libro

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 ten-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 United States, 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.

Biografía del autor

(Ciudad de México, 1983) es autora de las novelas Los ingrávidos (2011), La historia de mis dientes (2013) y Desierto sonoro (2019), y de los libros de ensayo Papeles falsos (2010) y Los niños perdidos (2016), todos ellos publicados en Sexto Piso. Ha colaborado, entre otros, en medios como The New York Times, Granta, The Guardian o El País. Sus obras, traducidas a más de veinte lenguas, han sido galardonadas dos veces con el Los Angeles Times Book Prize, con el American Book Award y con el Folio Prize, y han sido finalistas del Booker Prize, del Womenx{0026} x02019;s Prize for Fiction y del National Book Critics Circle Award en tres ocasiones. En la actualidad reside en el Bronx, Nueva York.