Lost Children Archive is daring, but not always convincing
(The Guardian Books Blog)

Valeria Luiselli´s novel uses modernist experimentation in a way that is sometimes brilliant, sometimes exasperatingIn Part Two of Lost Children Archive, Valeria Luiselli does something audacious: she changes both her focus and her narrator.Until this point, the story has been told by the mother of a small family as they travel by car from New York towards the south-west of America. `Inside the car the air is familiar and the smell is our own,` she tells us. `Inside the car, there is a sort of cyclical current of voices, questions and predictable reactions.`Sounds like a thousand toothpicks falling on the ground, sounds like old ladies scratching in their handbags for things they never find, sounds like someone hissing at us from under a bed. Continue reading...