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NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ‱ “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.” —The Washington Post

In Valeria Luiselli’s fiercely imaginative follow-up


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At times, immigration policies are so ludicrous that only fiction can tell a credible story of what’s happening.

In Luiselli’s novel, modern asylum policies in the United States get the storytelling they deserve through the lens of one New York family struggling with the ordinary challenges of life only to learn, bit by bit, just how close their lives are to the migrants attempting to navigate the extraordinary demands of immigration policies along the US-Mexican border.

The Lost Children takes us back to the early years of boy momness. This book is the most unique parenting novel I’ve ever read: a mother and father and two kids drive into the border crisis and make meaning of the words family and love and missing. The writing feels part diary, part indictment, and part love-letter for the son that the mother is sure she’s already in the act of losing.

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