The Gamble House Book Club: The Lost Children Archive

During The Gamble House Book Club's Dust Jacket Journeys, July's reading is The Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli.

Each gathering will offer an opportunity for examining diverse perspectives, sharing discoveries, and the exchange of ideas which make for a meaningful reading experience. To mark the 100th anniversary of Route 66, the books selected this quarter explore and deconstruct the significance of road trips in American family life. We look forward to sharing a literary journey to new perspectives and new understandings one book at a time.

"The Lost Children Archive" by Valeria Luiselli: In Valeria Luiselli’s fiercely imaginative novel, 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. Using sound, maps, and photographs to explore themes of displacement and documentation, Luiselli interweaves the fractures in the parents' relationship with the larger story of family separation at the border. A breath-taking work of literature, "Lost Children Archive" is timely, compassionate, subtly hilarious, and formally inventive—a powerful, urgent story about what it is to be human in an inhuman world.

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