ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE WASHINGTON POST TIME MAGAZINE NPR CHICAGO TRIBUNE GQ O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE THE GUARDIAN VANITY FAIR THE ATLANTIC THE WEEK THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS LIT HUB KIRKUS REVIEWS THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BOSTON.COM PUREWOW
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR
WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION WINNER OF THE FOLIO PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE
Impossibly smart, full of beauty, heart and insight. Everyone should read this book. Tommy Orange, author of There There
A Great American Novel for our time. Vanity Fair
Unforgettable, down to its explosive final sentence. . . . [Luiselli] audaciously stretches the bounds of storytelling. Entertainment Weekly
Virtuosic. . . . The brilliance of the writing stirs rage and pity. It humanizes us. The New York Times Book Review This is a novel that challenges us, as a nation, to reconcile our differences. . . . [The] writing shimmers like its desert setting. The Washington Post
Electric, elastic, alluring, new. The New York Times
A remarkable feat of empathy. NPR
[A] brilliantly intricate and constantly surprising book. The New Yorker
[Luiselli s] language is so transporting, it stops you time and again. O, The Oprah Magazine
Like all great novels. . . . Lost Children Archive is unquestionably timely, [but] it also approaches a certain timelessness. Los Angeles Times
Stunning. . . . Uniquely rewarding and even life-changing. The Seattle Times
Delicate, funny, effortlessly poetic. The Guardian
Passionate. The New York Review of Books
Rollicking. . . A highly imaginative and politically deft portrait of childhood within a vast American landscape. Harper s Magazine
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 the essay collection Sidewalks; the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth; and, most recently, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant ; the winner of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, an American Book Award, and the 2021 Dublin Literary Award; and has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award twice and the Kirkus Prize on three occasions. She has been a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree 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 more than twenty languages. She lives in New York City.
