compersion & limerence

What I Cried About On Wednesday, Week of 3/20 whatever, by felinejumper

SO. Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive. It's a road trip novel, a novel about a dissolving marriage, a novel about echoes and sound and memory, about the stories children and adults tell to each other, and a novel about, god, missing migrant children, children getting lost, the human atrocity of the U.S.-Mexico border. (fwiw it is also, almost incidentally, queer, but her queerness is layered amongst backstory and not at all a narrative priority.) It was a very incredibly good and intense read and I strongly recommend it while also feeling exceedingly odd about recommending a book that is...joyful but not about a joyful subject, mayhap.

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