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Violence
Barely any
References to migrant children in peril
Language
None
No profanity
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief adult content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Themes of migration, family dissolution, and the crisis at the US border
What this book is about
Luiselli's 2019 novel follows a family road trip westward as the parents — a documentary sound archivist and an audio documenter — quietly fall apart while the news fills with reports of migrant children at the border. Experimental and humane. For older teens and adults.
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Migration crisis themes
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