Luiselli, Valeria

"A mother and father set out with their kids from New York to Arizona. In their used Volvo--and with their ten-year-oldson trying out his new Polaroid camera--the family is heading for the Apacheria: the region the Apaches once called home, and where the ghosts of Geronimo and Cochise might still linger. The father, a sound documentarist, hopes to gather an 'inventory of echoes' from this historic, mythic place. The mother, a radio journalist, becomes consumed by the news she hears on the car radio, about the thousands of children trying to reach America but getting stranded at the southern border, held in detention centers, or being sent back to their homelands, to an unknown fate. But as the family drives farther west--through Virginia to Tennessee, across Oklahoma and Texas--we sense they are on the brink of a crisis of their own"--Provided by publisher.

Setting out with their children from New York to Arizona, a mother and father want to show their children Apacheria, the place the Apaches called home, because, according to the father, they were "the last of something." As the drive goes on and they hear about the illegal immigration crisis at the U.S. southern border, the kids begin to realize there is an unspoken crisis slitting their parents--and as they reach their destination they feel an adventure calling both outside and inside as they struggle with their experiences with justice and equality.