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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. --Jeremy Garber, Powell's Books
p>>Valeria 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. It's a rare thing: a book everyone should read. --Stephen Sparks, Point Reyes BooksTell Me How It Ends evokes empathy as it educates. It is a vital contribution to the body of post-Trump work being published in early 2017.--Katharine Solheim, Unabridged Bookstore
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. 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 Company
Appealing to the language of the United States' fraught immigration policy, Luiselli exposes the cracks in this foundation. 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
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. Tell Me How It Ends is not just relevant, it's essential.--Mark Haber, Brazos Bookstore
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Very Brief and Powerful
Derived From Web , Mar 14, 2021
I learned in general about this issue, but knew so much more from this book. The author looks at the problem of how our country treats migrant children when they come to the United States. It is a straightforward look at how these children have to fight their way in their own resources. I hope that President Biden can make a real difference in the Immigration Law.
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Informative
Derived From Web , Oct 9, 2020
This book was extremely informative to someone who wants to understand more about immigration - policies of the United States. The author goes from question to question in an easy to follow way, while telling stories that fit into that question on the way. The author also includes many young policies and laws that affect the questionnaire and how many numerous people respond to them. This book is regarding children under the age of 18 and who have usually come alone to America, there is also a large focus on Mexican children and how it affects them. I was somewhat annoyed by the author pointing in some political fingers, but you can ignore them. This book is very good and if you want to know more about the policies of this book, it is a good reference.
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The Genesis for Her Outstanding Novel......
Derived From Web , Sep 24, 2020
I believe '' her first book is written in English. A good primer to understand immigration issues and how the system works. Takes a global view and reminds us that Ameerica is not so innocent in this matter. The thing is that most of our grandpast would have allowed about 5 questions and would have answered in. A quick, one evening read-informative and worth your while, even if you're not going to read Luiselli's novel. Personal as well as her own issues with work status and a Green Card in the US.
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Disappointing Read
Derived From Web , Aug 1, 2020
The book had sections that were well written and I thought that the format of the 40 questions was a different approach. But the author could have been more effective if she hadn 't presented such a one-sided and biased view. It was read as disappointing because it lacked breadth and balance. Finally, a one-sided argument is skewed and can therefore not be truly accurate.
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Must read as prequel to Lost Children Archives
Derived From Web , Dec 26, 2019
Was reading Lost Children Archives, a work of fiction by Valeria Luiselli, and heard about this essay that the author had written. This essay was composed of actual interviews that the author had done with children coming to the United States seeking status to stay after fleeing their home country. Her stories of the children caked through a 40 question interview that was done with them before they were assigned an attorney to represent them in civil court. Having read this book provides a better understanding of her lost children's archives, which I will now finish reading.
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Horrible book- only because of the authors View points and ...
Derived From Web , Feb 24, 2018
Horrible book-only because of the authors'view points and how she shoves them down your throat. She also calls America a shithole, which I do not appreciate. The immigrant children - my heart goes out to them seriously and i hate that they have to deal with a life like that. This should not have to endure any child. The author could have presented the material in a more positive light, because that is what we need.
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she gets some pretty basic stuff wrong
Derived From Web , Feb 14, 2018
Considering the degree of access she had to the attorneys and the court system, she gets some pretty basic stuff wrong.
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If you know the issues, skip this one.
Derived From Web , Aug 9, 2017
This is an impressionistic, emotional, personal memoir of the author's short time with the immigration courts. It is not a possible study or presentation of the issues that faced the young and central Amercan adults and their families as possible solutions to the asylum crisis.
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I read this book with great care and interest because I am hoping my former ...
Derived From Web , Jul 20, 2017
I read this book with great care and interest because I am hoping that my former high school will use it for their essay contest. The stark contrast between children's lives and the system that decides whether they should stay or return home to a world of violence and poverty. The last half of the book becomes emotional as the writer focuses on a young person and his struggles to escape gang violence in his home country and find refuge in the United States. The last half of the book becomes emotional as the writer focuses on a young person and his struggles to escape gang violence in his home country and find refuge in the United States. I read the book, and I believe that you will come to appreciate the writer and her story.
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A look at migration through the eyes of children.
Derived From Web , Jun 27, 2017
This is not a long book, but it tells a very powerful story of the LONG journey that children make from south of the border to the United States. We don 't need a wall. We need better transportation options and a more humane attitude towards the people who do the work that Americans won 't do.
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