Desierto Sonoro / Lost Children Archive: A Novel (Paperback)

from paroof

This beautifully written book seems to be something different to everyone who reviews it. While yes, it is overtly about immigration - to me, it's also about sound, and words, and documenting, and memories, and journeys. It's exactly the kind of book I enjoy and also exactly the kind of book I p...

from Dreesie

This book. Phew. 4.5 to 5 stars. There are so many storylines in this book, so much rich language (and Luiselli's vocabulary is HUGE). There are photos and maps, inventories and excerpts from a (fictional) book. And then she has a list of works cited at the end. Yes, for a novel. More on that lat...

from Castlelass

Powerful story about a family that travels from New York to Arizona by car to research the ancestral home of the Apache so the father can record what remains of their civilization. The father is a “documentarian” and the mother “documentarist,” and the differences between the two become a recurri...

from kidzdoc

This inventive, multilayered, cerebral and compelling novel is based largely on the author's experience traveling with her family from New York City to the Arizona-México border in the summer of 2014. At that time there was a crisis at the border, as tens of thousands of Central Americans fleeing...

from booklove2

A NYC family (mom, dad and two smaller children, a five year old daughter and ten year old son) set off on a road trip, slowly making their way to the southern US to focus on their projects -- the mother's on undocumented refugee children and the father's on the Apache. Interestingly, I haven't s...