“A mould-breaking new classic … The novel truly becomes novel again in her hands – electric, elastic, alluring, new” –New York TimesA family in New York packs the car and sets out on a road trip. This will be the last journey they ever take together.In Central America and Mexico, thousands of children are on a journey of their own, travelling north to the US border. Not all of them will make it there.”A wonderfully subtle story in which the experience of migrant children is filtered through the delicate, funny, effortlessly poetic account of a family’s road trip from New York to the Mexican border” –Guardian