Lost Children Archive: WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2020

A grandmother or aunt has packed a backpack for them, putting in a bible, one toy, some clean underwear. They cross a river on rubber tubing and walk for days, saving whatever food and water they can. Then they climb to the top of a train and travel precariously in the open container on top. A mother, a father, a boy and a girl, they head south west, to the Apacheria, the regions of the US which used to be Mexico. The little girl tells surreal knock knock jokes and makes them all laugh.