This is a quiet, timely, inventive book that sneaks up on you (or at least it did on me). The story of a family driving cross country while the parents' marriage falls apart and immigrant children flee their homelands and come to the US border, only to be imprisoned or sent home, the book meanders at times, tells stories, gets into the mother's and son's heads, makes use of photos, inventories of boxes brought on the trip, a book called "Elegies for Lost Children" and ends up in a surprisingly moving place by the end. Beautiful writing that forced me to slow down and take it all in.