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Lost Children Archive: A novel Audiobook
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"Impossibly smart, full of beauty, heart and insight . . . Everyone should read this book."--Tommy Orange From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern border--an indelible journey told with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity. 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. Includes a PDF of visuals from the book.
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“Luiselli’s knotty metafictional novel…does not initially seem suited to audio. Smart production decisions and capable narration, however, transform it into a fascinating audiobook…Young actor Kivlighan de Montebello and the author read the bulk of the novel, and both give subtle and nuanced performances…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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“Unforgettable, down to its explosive final sentence.”
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“A highly imaginative and politically deft portrait of childhood within a vast American landscape.”
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“An epic road trip [that also] captures the unruly intimacies of marriage and parenthood…A novel that daylights our common humanity and challenges us to reconcile our differences.”
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“A remarkable feat of empathy.”
— NPR
Awards
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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Longlisted for the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction
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Longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize
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An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year So Far
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A Vanity Fair Magazine Pick for Best Book of the Year So Far
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A Barack Obama Reading List Pick of Favorite Books of 2019
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A London Guardian Best Book of the Year
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Finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction
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A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
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A Dallas Morning News Pick of the Year's Best Books
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Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize
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Shortlisted for the 2020 Carnegie Medal for Literature
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An Atlantic Best Book of 2019
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Finalist for the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
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Shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award
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Amazon Editor’s Top Pick
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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
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About Valeria Luiselli
Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983 and grew up in South Africa. In 2014 she was honored as part of the National Book Foundation’s list of “5 under 35.” Her debut novel, Faces in the Crowd, earned rave reviews and won the Los Angeles Times’ 2015 Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Luiselli’s fiction and essays have been translated into many languages, and her work has appeared in such publications as Granta, McSweeney’s, and the New York Times
About William DeMeritt
Kivlighan de Montebello is a voice artist and an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator who was awarded a prestigious Audie Award for best narration in 2018.