Lost Children Archive

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