Lost Children Archive
WINNER OF THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD AND THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND THE WOMEN’S PRIZE
The moving, powerful and urgent English-language debut from one of the brightest young stars in world literature
Suppose you and Pa were gone, and we were lost. What would happen then?
A family in New York packs the car and sets out on a road trip. This will be the last journey they ever take together.
In Central America and Mexico, thousands of children are on a journey of their own, travelling north to the US border. Not all of them will make it there.
'Fascinating, haunting, poetic' Sunday Times -
”'A mould-breaking new classic … The novel truly becomes novel again in her hands - electric, elastic, alluring, new” - New York Times
”'Daring, wholly original, brilliant … a twist on the great American road trip novel, a book about alienation that chronicles fractures, divides, and estrangement” - NPR
”'Timely and poignant” - Vogue
”'A wonderfully subtle story in which the experience of migrant children is filtered through the delicate, funny, effortlessly poetic account of a family’s road trip from New York to the Mexican border” - Guardian
‘Roving and beautiful … a searing indictment of America’s border policy' Daily Mail -
”'Powerful and urgent” - Stylist
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