Lost Children Archive

SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2020 * LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 * LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019

The moving, powerful and urgent English-language debut from one of the brightest young stars in world literature.

"Suppose you and Pa were gone, and we were lost. What would happen then?"

A family in New York packs the car and sets out on a road trip. This will be the last journey they ever take together. In Central America and Mexico, thousands of children are on a journey of their own, travelling north to the US border. Not all of them will make it there.