In Valeria Luiselli’s fiercely imaginative follow-up to the American Book Award-winning TELL ME HOW IT ENDS, an 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 west, the bonds between them begin to fray: a fracture is growing between the parents, one the children can almost feel beneath their feet.
 
Through ephemera such as songs, maps and a Polaroid camera, the children try to make sense of both their family’s 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 detained --- or lost in the desert along the way.
 
A breathtaking feat of literary virtuosity, LOST CHILDREN ARCHIVE is timely, compassionate, subtly hilarious and formally inventive --- a powerful, urgent story about what it is to be human in an inhuman world.

Audiobook available; read by Kivlighan de Montebello, William DeMeritt and Maia Enrigue Luiselli