This book is politically relevant at the start of 2025, although Valeria Luiselli began writing it in 2014, and it was first published in 2019. Children from Central America and Mexico try to get to America to start a new life, but if they are captured by the immigration authorities, they are deported on chartered planes that fly out from remote airfields in the desert. Some try to escape by running away, but with nothing to eat or drink they quickly succumb to the heat of the desert. The story of the Lost Children is told through the voices of one family who are making their own journey from New York to the Mexican border. The four members of the family are not given names until they give themselves nicknames some way along the road, and as they travel onwards, the reader only knows the children as 'the boy' (10) and 'the girl' (5). Their parents work on projects relating to creating archives of sound and that involves recording ambient noise as well as conversa...