Valeria Luiselli
just finished American Dirt, which I absolutely loved, I wanted to reach out for another author and read a similar subject but from a fresh and entirely different perspective.
I feel bored and deeply disappointed as this book feels pretentious and trys to hard to impress, I feel myself shuffling around and irritated, fifty pages in just waiting to be gripped by an exciting story line yet knowing its never going to happen.
I feel like the author is showing off and all look at me and how clever I am, You are not clever at all I am beyone bored at this point and wish you would just get on with the story.
You fail to arouse my empathy for literally any of the characters, American Dirt told the story that you didn't, Please stop trying to impress us with your knowledge and just get on withtelli g a great story, I like this book and is different explaining the issues on children immigration, Yet, i read her book tell me how it ends and so far I prefer this book when explaining the facts and issues on children immigration.
I did like a lot how the story evolves of this marriage, This book surprised me in the way it is written, It has a great narrative and speaks the truth about some of the social problems of nowadays without leaving behind the story I thought this was going to be really interesting and at first it was.
As a description of a journey through the American hinterland it was initially absorbing but gradually the suspicion that it was a candidate for pseuds corner began to niggle.
The mother appeared unhinged, the children precocious and unbelievable, the father a textbook, In the end it was just boring, The story is okay but the content is so pretentious, Even when the author is writing from the perspective of the child, you can still discern how unnaturally precocious it is written, More than anything, its just like reading a long overdrawn journal filled with emotionally charged yet aimless ranting, Its in part about children attempting to emigrate from Mexico and further south to the US but also a lot, Its contemplative, imaginative and well written, And the best thing for me at least was how the members of a made up family a mother with a five year old daughter from a previous relationship and a father with ayear old son from a previous relationship interact.
Don't want to say anything which might constitute a spoiler, Just read it. The book was long listed for the Booker Prize inand is better, in my opinion, than the four short listed books I've so far read or tried to read for that year though I really liked Ducks, Newburyport.
Irrelevant, limited, boring. It's mostly focused on personal experiences of being a mom and traveling south or doing anything else, In few words: white people literature, This one really didnt do it for me, The parts following the children I enjoyed, they were very vivid characters and fun to be around, but the adults really werent, The husband has literally no personality at all, and the wife wasnt very compelling either I was sad for the kids that the parents were going to break up but otherwise didnt care at all.
The thematic links between immigration, Native American life etc, were interesting at times but felt quite forced at others, WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION
WINNER OF THE FOLIO PRIZE
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE
One of The New York Times Best Books of the Year
A Best Book of: Entertainment Weekly TIMENPR O, The Oprah MagazineThe Washington Post GQ The Guardian Chicago Tribune Dallas Morning News and the New York Public Library
The novel truly becomes novel again in Luisellis handselectric, elastic, alluring, new.
Parul Sehgal, The New York Times
A fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern border an indelible journey told with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity.
A mother and father set out with their two children, a boy and a girl, driving from New York to Arizona in the heat of summer.
Their destination: Apacheria, the place the Apaches once called home,
Why Apaches asks the ten year old son, Because they were the last of something, answers his father,
In their car, they play games and
sing along to music, But on the radio, there is news about an "immigration crisis": thousands of kids trying to cross the southwestern border into the United States, but getting detained or lost in the desert along the way.
As the family drives through Virginia to Tennessee, across Oklahoma and Texas we sense they are on the brink of a crisis of their own.
A fissure is growing between the parents, one the children can almost feel beneath their feet, They are led, inexorably, to a grand, harrowing adventure both in the desert landscape and within the chambers of their own imaginations,
Told through several compelling voices, blending texts, sounds, and images, Lost Children Archive is an astonishing feat of literary virtuosity.
It is a richly engaging story of how we document our experiences, and how we remember the things that matter to us the most.
With urgency and empathy, it takes us deep into the lives of one remarkable family as it probes the nature of justice and equality today.
I feel bored and deeply disappointed as this book feels pretentious and trys to hard to impress, I feel myself shuffling around and irritated, fifty pages in just waiting to be gripped by an exciting story line yet knowing its never going to happen.
I feel like the author is showing off and all look at me and how clever I am, You are not clever at all I am beyone bored at this point and wish you would just get on with the story.
You fail to arouse my empathy for literally any of the characters, American Dirt told the story that you didn't, Please stop trying to impress us with your knowledge and just get on withtelli g a great story, I like this book and is different explaining the issues on children immigration, Yet, i read her book tell me how it ends and so far I prefer this book when explaining the facts and issues on children immigration.
I did like a lot how the story evolves of this marriage, This book surprised me in the way it is written, It has a great narrative and speaks the truth about some of the social problems of nowadays without leaving behind the story I thought this was going to be really interesting and at first it was.
As a description of a journey through the American hinterland it was initially absorbing but gradually the suspicion that it was a candidate for pseuds corner began to niggle.
The mother appeared unhinged, the children precocious and unbelievable, the father a textbook, In the end it was just boring, The story is okay but the content is so pretentious, Even when the author is writing from the perspective of the child, you can still discern how unnaturally precocious it is written, More than anything, its just like reading a long overdrawn journal filled with emotionally charged yet aimless ranting, Its in part about children attempting to emigrate from Mexico and further south to the US but also a lot, Its contemplative, imaginative and well written, And the best thing for me at least was how the members of a made up family a mother with a five year old daughter from a previous relationship and a father with ayear old son from a previous relationship interact.
Don't want to say anything which might constitute a spoiler, Just read it. The book was long listed for the Booker Prize inand is better, in my opinion, than the four short listed books I've so far read or tried to read for that year though I really liked Ducks, Newburyport.
Irrelevant, limited, boring. It's mostly focused on personal experiences of being a mom and traveling south or doing anything else, In few words: white people literature, This one really didnt do it for me, The parts following the children I enjoyed, they were very vivid characters and fun to be around, but the adults really werent, The husband has literally no personality at all, and the wife wasnt very compelling either I was sad for the kids that the parents were going to break up but otherwise didnt care at all.
The thematic links between immigration, Native American life etc, were interesting at times but felt quite forced at others, WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION
WINNER OF THE FOLIO PRIZE
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE
One of The New York Times Best Books of the Year
A Best Book of: Entertainment Weekly TIMENPR O, The Oprah MagazineThe Washington Post GQ The Guardian Chicago Tribune Dallas Morning News and the New York Public Library
The novel truly becomes novel again in Luisellis handselectric, elastic, alluring, new.
Parul Sehgal, The New York Times
A fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern border an indelible journey told with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity.
A mother and father set out with their two children, a boy and a girl, driving from New York to Arizona in the heat of summer.
Their destination: Apacheria, the place the Apaches once called home,
Why Apaches asks the ten year old son, Because they were the last of something, answers his father,
In their car, they play games and
sing along to music, But on the radio, there is news about an "immigration crisis": thousands of kids trying to cross the southwestern border into the United States, but getting detained or lost in the desert along the way.
As the family drives through Virginia to Tennessee, across Oklahoma and Texas we sense they are on the brink of a crisis of their own.
A fissure is growing between the parents, one the children can almost feel beneath their feet, They are led, inexorably, to a grand, harrowing adventure both in the desert landscape and within the chambers of their own imaginations,
Told through several compelling voices, blending texts, sounds, and images, Lost Children Archive is an astonishing feat of literary virtuosity.
It is a richly engaging story of how we document our experiences, and how we remember the things that matter to us the most.
With urgency and empathy, it takes us deep into the lives of one remarkable family as it probes the nature of justice and equality today.
Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa and India, An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, she is the author of “Faces in the Crowd,” “Sidewalks,” “The Story of My Teeth,” “Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions,” and, most recently, “Lost Children Archive.
” She is the winner of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes and an American Book Award, and has twice been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kirkus Prize.
She has been a National Book FoundationUnderhonoree and the recipient of a Bearing Witness Fellowship from the Art for Justice Fund.
Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, and McSweeney's, among other publications, and has been translated into than twenty languages.
She lives in New York City, .