Lost Children Archive: WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2020

by ValeriaLuiselli (Author), Valeria Luiselli (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2019

  $6.25

  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. A mother, a father, a boy and a girl, they head south west, to the Apacheria, the regions of the US which used to be Mexico. They drive for hours through desert and mountains. They stop at diners when they're hungry and sleep in motels when it gets dark. The little girl tells surreal knock knock jokes and makes them all laugh. The little boy educates them all and corrects them when they're wrong. The mother and the father are barely speaking to each other.