Sharp and compelling, Tell Me How It Ends demands that [these children] be seen.” —World Literature Today

Luiselli’s so-called essay is more than a memoir; it’s more than a report on an emergency, though it fulfills that role ably as well. In attempting to thread its way through the incoherence of both the refugee children’s traumatic journeys and the U.S. immigration system as a whole, Tell Me How It Ends reveals, ultimately, the burdens of narrative coherence.” —Carolina Quarterly

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Ironically, Henrietta, the main character in Tell Me How This Ends, is a self-confessed ‘failed librarian’. But to me, librarians are heroes. Countless times, books have made me feel ‘seen’, lifted me up or spirited me away to another world – and librarians have been my best guides. Long live libraries and the life-changing ways they bring us together to share stories and expand our horizons." Get involved Based on Luiselli's time working as a translator and interviewer for undocumented children, Tell Me How It Ends is a gut-wrenching and necessary read.” —Bustle

This is a vital document for understanding the crisis that immigrants to the U.S. are facing, and a call to action for those who find this situation appalling.” —Publishers Weekly Because—how do you explain that it is never inspiration that drives you to tell a story, but rather a combination of anger and clarity? How do you say: No, we do not find inspiration here, but we find a country that is as beautiful as it is broken, and we are somehow now part of it, so we are also broken with it, and feel ashamed, confused, and sometimes hopeless, and are trying to figure out how to do something about all that. Valeria Luiselli’s latest book, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions, is unsparing in its portrayal of vulnerability and determination.” —Rolling StoneUsing the essay form to interrogate the question of citizenship, Luiselli’s Tell Me How It Ends reminds us that as long as we’re a nation who defines itself by saying who doesn’t belong, we’ll ask the more complicated question of who does.” —Critical Mass

ve bu uyuşturucu ticaretinde en çok abd’nin payı olduğu halde yapılan duvarlar, çekilen dikenli teller, iğrenç politikalar. obama’nın neler yaptığını da bir güzel okuduk. yüzlerce yıldır amerikan yerlilerine, sonra göçmenlere yapılanlar, uyuşturucu kartellerinin cehenneme çevirdiği hayatlar, ölmeyi göze alarak kaçmaya çalışan çocuklar. ki istatistikleri görebilirsiniz fotolarda. Questo libro è un pugno nello stomaco. 90 pagine dense di dolore, di denuncia, di voglia di cambiare le cose. Unlike Henrietta, Annie is brimming with confidence—but even she has limits when it comes to opening up. Ever since that terrible night when her sister left a pile of clothes beside the canal and vanished, Annie has been afraid to look too closely into the murky depths of her memories. When her attempts to glide over the past come up against Henrietta’s determination to fill in the gaps, both women find themselves confronting truths they’d thought were buried forever—especially when Henrietta’s digging unearths a surprising emotional connection between them.

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In the warrens of New York City’s federal immigration court, an adolescent boy from Honduras confronts a thoroughly confused immigration bureaucracy with the help of his translator, who is the author of this book. He is just one of thousands of immigrant children longing for permanence in this country, but we get to see him up close. With Valeria Luiselli as our guide, we navigate the corridors of a system that tries and fails to reconcile America’s long-standing welcome of the poor, the terrorized, and the adventurous with its current fear and mistrust of immigrants. In the frightening year of 2017 this is a most necessary book, and a unique one, from a writer whose clear-eyed intelligence and marvelous literary imagination make every one of her narratives a compelling read.” —Alma Guillermoprieto TELL ME HOW THIS ENDS promises to deliver an intense story of two brothers in love with the same girl and one girl caught in the middle of two brothers. And, man, did it deliver! I loved this book. Loved it. The voices of the characters and writing styles were fresh. I truly felt as though I connected with all three of the main characters and found myself inwardly cringing as the tension built wondering how in the world the book was going to end well with so much conflict. What do you want from me?” she asks. Her lip is trembling, so I put my thumb on it. “Everything. I don’t think there would be anything left after I was done with you.”

Eppure qualcuno di questi bambini pensa che da qualche parte si arrivi. “Per quale motivo sei venuta qui? ho chiesto una volta a una bambina. Perché volevo arrivare.”

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I wish I could force every person who chants "build a wall" or asks "why can't they just come here legally" to read this book. The 40 questions from the title are those Luiselli asks of detained children as a volunteer interpreter in federal immigration courts, and she uses this structure to give a concise, impassioned plea for us to recognize these children for what they are -- refugees fleeing unimaginable violence, violence the US has had a significant hand in creating and inflaming. If you've read her fiction, you know she's a brilliant writer, but this is something more; it's gut-wrenching, of course, but it's also a reminder that we don't have any time to lose, and that even our small acts of compassion are crucial. Tell Me How It Ends itself is also a sharp, useful narrative, a ‘telling better.’ It can be pressed into hands, recommended, and it will open wallets and drive people into the streets to protest.” —Remezcla 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. . . . With a beguiling mixture of compassion and intellectual rigor, she gives her readers the chance to look.” —Chicago Tribune