Lost Children Archive
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.
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1recommend
3mentions
3people
2019–2022years
33% recommend67% neutral
Mentions per year
What Hacker News says
- Fiction: - Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli: mixes the personal and political so skillfully - The Magician by Colm Tóibín: Thomas Mann, the German, author is the main character. Shows our own moment in history in relief.
Non-Fiction, work: - The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition by David Thomas, Andrew Hunt: I’m not a programmer and still found this one of the most useful books I read this year. - Working Backwards by Colin Bryar, Bill Carr: The Amazon/Bezos love choked me a couple of times but I’ve put in practice some of what learned in this book to good effect.
Non-Fiction, history: - Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy D. Snyder: This is a hard book to read. Not slow hard. Terrifying and apocalyptic and true hard. Gives a lot of context to current events. - The Enemy of All Mankind by Steven Johnson: Pirates. The seafaring kind.
- List plain text (from https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2019-...)
“The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power,” by Shoshana Zuboff “The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company,” by William Dalrymple “Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee,” by Casey Cep “Girl, Woman, Other,” by Bernardine Evaristo (Booker Prize winner) “The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America From 1890 to the Present,” by David Treuer “How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy,” by Jenny Odell “Lost Children Archive,” by Valeria Luiselli “Lot: Stories,” by Bryan Washington “Normal People,” by Sally Rooney “The Orphan Master’s Son,” by Adam Johnson “The Yellow House,” by Sarah M. Broom (National Book Award winner, nonfiction) “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland,” by Patrick Radden Keefe “Solitary,” by Albert Woodfox “The Topeka School,” by Ben Lerner “Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion,” by Jia Tolentino “Trust Exercise,” by Susan Choi (National Book Award winner, fiction) “We Live in Water: Stories,” by Jess Walter - 1. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, by Shoshana Zuboff
https://www.worldcat.org/title/age-of-surveillance-capitalis...
2. The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company, by William Dalrymple
https://www.worldcat.org/title/anarchy-the-relentless-rise-o...
3. Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, by Casey Cep
https://www.worldcat.org/title/furious-hours-murder-fraud-an...
4. Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernardine Evaristo (Booker Prize winner)
https://www.worldcat.org/title/girl-woman-other/oclc/1127909...
5. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America From 1890 to the Present, by David Treuer
https://www.worldcat.org/title/heartbeat-of-wounded-knee-nat...
6. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, by Jenny Odell
https://www.worldcat.org/title/how-to-do-nothing-resisting-t...
7. Lost Children Archive, by Valeria Luiselli
https://www.worldcat.org/title/lost-children-archive/oclc/11...
8. Lot: Stories, by Bryan Washington
https://www.worldcat.org/title/lot-stories/oclc/1128099233
9. Normal People, by Sally Rooney
https://www.worldcat.org/title/normal-people/oclc/1119769689
10. The Orphan Master’s Son, by Adam Johnson
https://www.worldcat.org/title/orphan-masters-son-a-novel/oc...
11. The Yellow House, by Sarah M. Broom (National Book Award winner, nonfiction)
https://www.worldcat.org/title/yellow-house/oclc/1122461200
12. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, by Patrick Radden Keefe
https://www.worldcat.org/title/say-nothing-a-true-story-of-m...
13. Solitary, by Albert Woodfox
https://www.worldcat.org/title/solitary/oclc/1105720325
14. The Topeka School, by Ben Lerner
https://www.worldcat.org/title/topeka-school/oclc/1126252713
15. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, by Jia Tolentino
https://www.worldcat.org/title/trick-mirror-reflections-on-s...
16. Trust Exercise, by Susan Choi (National Book Award winner, fiction)
https://www.worldcat.org/title/trust-exercise/oclc/111435376...
17. We Live in Water: Stories, by Jess Walter
https://www.worldcat.org/title/we-live-in-water-stories/oclc...
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