{"id":46183,"date":"2020-01-02T11:12:36","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T16:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=46183"},"modified":"2021-03-24T19:35:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T23:35:19","slug":"lost-children-archive-by-valeria-luiselli-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/lost-children-archive-by-valeria-luiselli-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-45657\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/08\/Lost-Children-Archive-Valeria-Luiselli-BookDragon-524x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/08\/Lost-Children-Archive-Valeria-Luiselli-BookDragon-524x800.jpg 524w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/08\/Lost-Children-Archive-Valeria-Luiselli-BookDragon.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><strong>*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong><br \/>\nValeria Luiselli\u2019s spectacular latest \u2013 her first fiction in English \u2013 also marks her co-narrator debut. The Mexican-born Luiselli is the dominant voice here; her accent slight, her enunciation careful. Only her collaboration could have enabled the affecting print-to-audio metamorphosis, choosing how photos, drawings, and maps might \u2018sound\u2019 and creating descriptive copy for 24 unmarked-on-the-page Polaroids at book\u2019s end.<\/p>\n<p>Part roadtrip (with audiobooks even), part family drama, part testimony, <em>Archive<\/em> features a woman and her five-year-old daughter, and a man and his 10-year-old son, who have been a family for four years. The man and woman met while documenting NYC\u2019s 800-plus spoken languages. They\u2019ve embarked cross-country to Arizona: the man to research the Apache people\u2019s native lands; the woman to search for a friend\u2019s missing daughters lost at the border.<\/p>\n<p>Seven boxes hold the family\u2019s lives \u2013 William DeMeritt interrupts briefly to tally the contents of the husband\u2019s four. The woman has one, the children another each. Kivlighan de Montebello \u2013 whose earnest, elongated vowels turn rock to rawwk, spot to spawwt \u2013 embodies the son as he plans a journey-for-two that goes awry. Luiselli\u2019s own child Maia Enrigue Luiselli provides soundscapes \u2013 more onomatopoeic memories than words \u2013 for Box VI.<\/p>\n<p>Through a family in crisis, Luiselli lays bare the disconnects of what we hear, what we see, what we understand \u2013 and what we can\u2019t, or simply won\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Lost-Children-Archive-\/pid=9716582\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">&#8220;Media,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, December 1, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*STARRED REVIEW Valeria Luiselli\u2019s spectacular latest \u2013 her first fiction in English \u2013 also marks her co-narrator debut. The Mexican-born Luiselli is the dominant voice here; her accent slight, her enunciation careful. Only her collaboration could have enabled the affecting print-to-audio metamorphosis, choosing how photos,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,81,6,199,9598,9599,6535],"tags":[6608,6668,22,10,24,51,25,7920,8460,8803,39,8461,7150],"class_list":["post-46183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-audio","category-fiction","category-latinaox","category-mexican","category-mexican-american","category-repost","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-civil-rights","tag-family","tag-historical","tag-identity","tag-immigration","tag-kivlighan-de-montebello","tag-lost-children-archive","tag-maia-enrique-luiselli","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-valeria-luiselli","tag-william-demeritt"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli [in Booklist] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/lost-children-archive-by-valeria-luiselli-in-booklist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli [in Booklist] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"*STARRED REVIEW Valeria Luiselli\u2019s spectacular latest \u2013 her first fiction in English \u2013 also marks her co-narrator debut. 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