Lost children archive

In Lost Children Archive, the Mexican-American writer intertwines the political and the personal, the topical with the timeless, the documentary with the poetic. A travelogue of a journey from New York to Arizona, a telling content of two documentarians’ stationery boxes, a worried family that grows more distant as the journey progresses, and a reflection on some of the more poignant personal and social themes. On the outside, the novel seems like a patchwork of different literary approaches, allusions and sources, but it is united by the author’s strong focus on observation, awareness and understanding of what is happening within and around her. (ŠP)