Lost Children Archive
Lost Children Archive – Valeria Luiselli
“Our mothers teach us to speak, and the world teaches us to shut up.” Page 19.
Parental driven fiction is a strange little beastie and one that I’m not really familiar with. Title caught my eye, it was recommended from a. Read list, and so that’s how I got a library copy.
The notion that it was based around a road trip, westward, and just as I type that out, I think about other road stories. Or literary road tales?
What caught my attention in the various reviews, mentions of the near-mythical “Apacheria,” that land owned by the Apaches before the pale, sickly ones showed up.
At one point, in my casual study of local histories, the Apacheria was defined as what is now the borderlands, south of the Colorado River, the one currently dividing north and South Austin, and stretching westward to almost CA, and down into the woodlands in Northern Mexico. Vast expanses of prairie and lush desert, staked out by the horseback-mounted high plains wanderers.
“At least as far as it concerns bathroom habits, parenthood seems at times like teaching an extinct, complicated religion.” Page 41.
It is, I surmise.
Brings up the question, though aside from what seems to be the main focus, of the need to document every minute — minutiae of each minute of a life.