NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ΓÇó ΓÇ£An epic road trip [that also] captures the unruly intimacies of marriage and parenthood … This is a novel that daylights our common humanity,and challenges us to reconcile our differences.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöThe Washington Post In Valeria LuiselliΓÇÖs fiercely imaginative follow-up to the American Book Award-winning Tell Me How It Endsan artist couple set out with their two children on a road trip from New York to Arizona in the heat of summer. As the family travels westthe bonds between them begin to fray: a fracture is growing between the parentsone the children can almost feel beneath their feet. Through ephemera such as songsmaps and a Polaroid camerathe children try to make sense of both their familyΓÇÖs crisis and the larger one engulfing the news: the stories of thousands of kids trying to cross the southwestern border into the United States but getting detainedΓÇöor lost in the desert along the way. A breath-taking feat of literary virtuosityLost Children Archive is timelycompassionatesubtly hilariousand formally inventiveΓÇöa powerfulurgent story about what it is to be human in an inhuman world.