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ClareR (6182 KP) rated Lost Children Archive in Books

Sep 2, 2021  
Lost Children Archive
Lost Children Archive
Valeria Luiselli | 2019 | Fiction & Poetry
9
9.0 (1 Ratings)
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This was a NetGalley book that I forgot I had, and ended up listening to with my Audible credit 🤷🏼‍♀️ Anyway, I thought it lent itself really well to audio, particularly as the main adult characters, the mother and father, work in sound. The father creates soundscapes, and the mother interviews people.

The parents are clearly at odds with one another, both wanting to progress their careers in different ways. The father wants to make a soundscape of Apacheria where the last tribes had lived, and the mother wants to help a friend to find her lost children. They had been sent to the US with a coyote (a guide), had been found and sent to a detention centre - but they had subsequently gone missing. The mother discovers that these lone children have been disappearing on this journey for a long time.

The lost children hits close to home when the parents own children go missing.

I really enjoyed this. I loved how the two stories - the journey of the children, and that of the children in the mothers book who are being smuggled from Mexico - were intertwined. I enjoyed the way that the narratives swapped between the mother, the boy and the immigrant children, although the lines often became blurred between reality and the mothers novel.

It is in parts both devastating and informative, particularly in the times that we live in. This isn’t an easy book, but its well worth the read.
  
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Genesis P-Orridge recommended Lord of The Underground: Vishnu and The Magic Elixr by Acid Mothers Temple / Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO in Music (curated)

 
Lord of The Underground: Vishnu and The Magic Elixr by Acid Mothers Temple / Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO
Lord of The Underground: Vishnu and The Magic Elixr by Acid Mothers Temple / Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO
2009 | Psychedelic, Rock
(0 Ratings)
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"It was my manager, Ryan Martin, who also does Dais Records, who said, “You don’t know who Acid Mothers Temple are?!” I knew the name, but had never listened to them, so he immediately burned about 30 CDs! We loved it, and then he rang me to tell me they were playing live at The Knitting Factory the following week. He took me, and I was absolutely entranced. The guy at the front, with hair longer than mine that had gone grey, and he was swaying off the rhythm of the music, in perfect time to something in his head. It just blows you away. And then, what’s his name with the guitar, begins with an M…"

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