Monday, March 11, 2019

NEWSHOUR BOOKSHELF - "Lost Children Archive" (a novel)

"Novelist Valeria Luiselli on writing to document ‘political violence’" PBS NewsHour 3/6/2019

Excerpt

SUMMARY:  The U.S. is reportedly experiencing illegal immigration at the highest rates since 2007, with significant increases in the number of unaccompanied minors.  It is these child migrants who are the subject of Valeria Luiselli’s book “Lost Children Archive.”  Luiselli talks to Jeffrey Brown about her experience helping child asylum seekers, balancing truth and fiction and "political violence."

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