PositiveThe Times (UK)\"Much of the first part is an engrossing portrait of a family, and Luiselli captures children’s’ outlooks with touching sympathy, set against a shifting backdrop of seedy motels in desolate hinterlands ... The novel’s formal experimentation and documentary inclusiveness, running, at the end, to a series of Polaroid snapshots, along with the narrator’s often fascinating digressions, on the pleasures of reading Susan Sontag’s journals, for example, make Lost Children Archive an involving and richly textured book ... It is here, at the end, that the main narrative of Lost Children Archive radically speeds up and takes a somewhat implausible and melodramatic turn, as the children run away from their archivist parents and set out across the desert, to link up briefly with the child migrants seeking to avoid deportation. One senses here an over-desire to cement parallels and analogies, to hammer home themes. But these weaknesses in the ending are more than outweighed by the fascination and sombre beauty of the journey that has taken us to this point.\
