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Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli

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Lost Children Archive
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Valeria Luiselli

Hannah Greendale (Hello, Bookworm)'s review

Aug 04, 2019

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bookshelves: booker-prize-nominee, contemporary, women-s-prize-nominee, adult, fiction, literary-fiction

Idea overshadows execution. Still, there are moments when this book soars.

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Reading Progress

July 28, 2019 – Started Reading

July 28, 2019 – Shelved

July 28, 2019 – Shelved as: booker-prize-nominee

July 28, 2019 – Shelved as: contemporary

July 28, 2019 – Shelved as: women-s-prize-nominee

July 28, 2019 –

page 19

4.94% "They weren’t looking for the American Dream, as the narrative usually goes. The children were merely looking for a way out of their daily nightmare."

July 30, 2019 –

page 55

14.29% "I suppose that documenting things - through the lens of a camera, on paper, or with a sound recording device - is really only a way of contributing one more layer, something like soot, to all the things already sedimented in a collective understanding of the world."

August 4, 2019 – Finished Reading

December 31, 2020 – Shelved as: adult

December 31, 2020 – Shelved as: fiction

January 14, 2023 – Shelved as: literary-fiction