Lost children archive
Luiselli, Valeria
1983-
creator
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Domestic fiction.
enk
2019
monographic
eng
385 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm.
uppose 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. Meanwhile, thousands of children are journeying north, travelling to the US border from Central America and Mexico. A grandmother or aunt has packed a backpack for them, putting in a bible, one toy, some clean underwear. They have been met by a coyote: a man who speaks to them roughly and frightens them. They cross a river on rubber tubing and walk for days, saving whatever food and water they can. Then they climb to the top of a train and travel precariously in the open container on top. Not all of them will make it to the border.
by Valeria Luiselli.
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Families
Fiction
Immigrant children
United States
Social conditions
Fiction
Illegal alien children
United States
Social conditions
Fiction
Immigrant children
Legal status, laws, etc
United States
Fiction
Illegal alien children
Legal status, laws, etc
United States
Fiction
United States
Emigration and immigration
Government policy
Fiction
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