‘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 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 Tell Me How It Ends is not just relevant, its essential.' Mark Haber, Brazos Bookstore 'Humane yet often horrifying, Tell Me How It Ends offers a compelling, intimate look at a continuing crisisand its ongoing cost in an age of increasing urgency. ‘ 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. 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
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