PositiveThe Globe and MailThis is a novel for the Trump era, but Donald Trump himself, and his presidency, do not shadow this story...much of the work was written before the election of the current President. ... Luiselli’s construction of Lost Children Archive is masterful. She employs the tools of fiction – shifting points of view, shifting from the past to the present and back – and draws out a truth that a lot of non-fiction generally does not reach. But Luiselli does slip here and there. Several scenes feel pedantic. A few characters in cameos veer into caricature. And she loudly hammers away at her themes of echoes and ghosts and archiving – compilations of sounds, pictures, words and memory ... a political book – but often free of politics. When it is explicit, it lands a solid punch, especially for anyone with a myopia that Trump is a singular beacon of blame ... Luiselli paints beautiful scenes of family and wonderful portraits of the children ... tremendous.
