Book
Lost children archive : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525436461 (Vintage paperback)
- ISBN: 9780525520610
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Physical Description:
383 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 25 cm
regular print
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Awards Note: | Shortlisted for 2019 Man Booker Prize |
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| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Road fiction. |
Available copies
- 16 of 16 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
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- 0 current holds with 16 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Hazelton Public Library | Fic (Text) | 35154000152854 | Adult Fiction - Main Floor | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Kaslo and District Public Library | AF LUI (Text) | 35134000453924 | Argenta Library (offsite collection) | Not holdable | Onsite consultation | - |
| Kitimat Public Library | Lui (Text) | 32665002190538 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Mackenzie Public Library | LUI (Text) | 35192000403570 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Nelson Public Library | F LUI (Text) | 3514830030243 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Smithers Public Library | F LUI (Text) | 35101011027781 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Sparwood Public Library | FIC LUI (Text) | 35172000246732 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Terrace Public Library | LUI (Text) | 35151001082338 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Tumbler Ridge Public Library | AF LUISE (Text) | TRL25379 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| 100 Mile House Branch | LUI (Text) | 33923006062255 | General Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Traces a profoundly human family summer road trip across America that is shaped by historical and modern displacement tragedies as well as a growing rift between the two parents. - Baker & Taylor
"A novel about a family of four, on the cusp of fracture, who take a trip across America--a story told through varying points of view, and including archival documents and photographs"-- - Baker & Taylor
The award-winning author of Tell Me How It Ends traces a profoundly human family summer road trip across America that is shaped by historical and modern displacement tragedies as well as a growing rift between the two parents. - Baker & Taylor
"From the two-time NBCC Finalist, a fiercely imaginative novel about a family's summer road trip across America--a journey that, with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity, probes the nature of justice and equality in America today. A mother and father set out with their kids from New York to Arizona. In their used Volvo--and with their ten-year-old son trying out his new Polaroid camera--the family is heading for the Apacheria: the region the Apaches once called home, and where the ghosts of Geronimo and Cochise might still linger. The father, a sound documentarist, hopes to gather an "inventory of echoes" from this historic, mythic place. The mother, a radio journalist, becomes consumed by the news she hears on the car radio, about the thousands of children trying to reach America but getting stranded at the southern border, held in detention centers, or being sent back to their homelands, to an unknown fate. But as the family drives farther west--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 feel beneath their feet. They are led, inexorably, to a grand, unforgettable adventure--both in the harsh desert landscape and within the chambers of their own imaginations. Told through the voices of the mother and her son, as well as through a stunning tapestry of collected texts and images--including prior stories of migration and displacement--Lost Children Archive is a story of how we document our experiences, and how we remember the things that matter to us the most. Blending the personal and the political with astonishing empathy, it is a powerful, wholly original work of fiction: exquisite, provocative, and deeply moving"-- - Random House, Inc.
WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION
WINNER OF THE FOLIO PRIZE
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE
One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year
A Best Book of 2019: Entertainment Weekly; TIME;Â NPR; O, The Oprah Magazine;Â The Washington Post; GQ;Â The Guardian; Chicago Tribune; Dallas Morning News; and the New York Public Library
âThe novel truly becomes novel again in Luiselliâs handsâelectric, elastic, alluring, new.â --Parul Sehgal, The New York Times
A 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.
