Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions

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A powerful polemic about the US-Mexico border and what is happening to the tens of thousands of children arriving in the US without papers
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. Tens of thousands have been detained at the border. What will happen to them Where are the parents And why have they undertaken a terrifying, life-threatening journey to enter the United States

Valeria Luiselli works as a volunteer at the federal immigration court in New York City, translating for unaccompanied migrant children. 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.

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An essay about humanity with its back up against the border wall, and is so true and moving that it filled me with hopeless hope Ali Smith

The first must-read book of the Trump era Texas Observer

Harrowing, intimate, quietly brilliant New York Times

In this compelling, devastating book, Luiselli documents the huge injustices done to the children by both the American and Mexican governments, and by the public who treat them as illegal aliens, rather than as what they truly are: refugees of war Observer

Angry and affecting. A slight book with a big impact Financial Times

There are many books addressing the plight of refugees. Tell Me How It Ends lucid, plain-speaking and authoritative is one of the most powerful Big Issue

The kind of reading experience that rips your heart out. This is required reading Vol. 1 Brooklyn

A remarkable little work that says more than books ten times its size GQ

With anger and lucidity, Luiselli depicts the nightmares these children are forced to flee in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, as well as the destructive ignorance and bigotry that awaits them in America Chicago Tribune

Combines the skills of a journalist with a novelists empathy Times Literary Supplement

Luiselli takes us inside the grand dream of migration, offering the valuable reminder that exceedingly few immigrants abandon their past and brave death to come to America for dark or nasty reasons. They come as an expression of hope NPR

Be prepared to cry. Read it, read it, read it and then share it Texas Book Festival

The very least we can all do is hear these stories. Read this book Proximity Magazine

Author Bio

Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983. She is the author of the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth, which won the 2016 LA Times Book Prize for Fiction; the essay collection Sidewalks; and Tell Me How It Ends, an essay about the situation faced by children arriving at the US-Mexico border without papers. Lost Children Archive is her first novel written in English.