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Dedication

To Maia and Dylan

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

PART I: FAMILY SOUNDSCAPE

Relocations

Box I

Routes & Roots

Box II

Undocumented

Box III

Missing

Box IV

Removals

PART II: REENACTMENT

Deportations

Maps & Boxes

Box V

Continental Divide

Lost

PART III: APACHERIA

Dust Valleys

Heart of Light

Echo Canyon

PART IV: LOST CHILDREN ARCHIVE

Box VI

Document

Box VII

Works Cited

Illustration Credits

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Also by Valeria Luiselli

About the Publisher

PART I

RELOCATIONS

An archive presupposes an archivist, a hand that collects and classifies.

—ARLETTE FARGE

To leave is to die a little.

To arrive is never to arrive.

—MIGRANT PRAYER

DEPARTURE

Mouths open to the sun, they sleep. Boy and girl, foreheads pearled with sweat, cheeks red and streaked white with dry spit. They occupy the entire space in the back of the car, spread out, limbs offering, heavy and placid. From the copilot seat, I glance back to check on them every so often, then turn around again to study the map. We advance in the slow lava of traffic toward the city limits, across the GW Bridge, and merge onto the interstate. An airplane passes above us and leaves a straight long scar on the palate of the cloudless sky. Behind the wheel, my husband adjusts his hat, dries his forehead with the back of his hand.

FAMILY LEXICON

I don’t know what my husband and I will say to each of our children one day. I’m not sure which parts of СКАЧАТЬ

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