Tell Me How It Ends – lucid, plain-speaking and authoritative – is one of the most powerful’ Big Issue ‘There are many books addressing the plight of refugees. A slight book with a big impact’ Financial Times ‘The first must-read book of the Trump era’ Texas Observer ‘Harrowing, intimate, quietly brilliant’ New York Times ‘ So true and moving that it filled me with hopeless hope’ Ali Smith Out of her work has come this book – a search for answers and an urgent appeal for humanity and compassion in response to mass migration, the most significant global phenomenon of our time.

Valeria Luiselli works as a volunteer at the federal immigration court in New York City, translating for unaccompanied migrant children. What will happen to them? Where are the parents? And why have they undertaken a terrifying, life-threatening journey to enter the United States?’ Tens of thousands have been detained at the border. ‘We are driving across Oklahoma in early June when we first hear about the waves of children arriving, alone and undocumented, from Mexico and Central America. Tell Me How It Ends is not just relevant, it's essential.A moving, eye-opening polemic about the US-Mexico border and what happens to the tens of thousands of unaccompanied Mexican and Central American children arriving in the US without papers The bureaucratic labyrinth of immigration, the dangers of searching for a better life, all of this and more is contained in this brief and profound work. Herself an immigrant, she highlights the human cost of its brokenness, as well as the hope that it (rather than walls) might be rebuilt.-Brad Johnson, Diesel Bookstore Is this a story, or is this beyond a story? Valeria Luiselli is one of those brave and eloquent enough to help us see.-Rick Simonson, Elliott Bay Book CompanyĪppealing to the language of the United States' fraught immigration policy, Luiselli exposes the cracks in this foundation. While this essay is brilliant for exactly what it depicts, it helps open larger questions, which we're ever more on the precipice of now, of where all of this will go, how all of this might end. It is a vital contribution to the body of post-Trump work being published in early 2017.-Katharine Solheim, Unabridged Bookstore Tell Me How It Ends evokes empathy as it educates. It's a rare thing: a book everyone should read. Jeremy Garber, Powell's BooksValeria Luiselli's extended essay on her volunteer work translating for child immigrants confronts with compassion and honesty the problem of the North American refugee crisis. Humane yet often horrifying, Tell Me How It Ends offers a compelling, intimate look at a continuing crisis-and its ongoing cost in an age of increasing urgency.

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