{"product_id":"tell-me-how-it-ends-an-essay-in-40-questions","title":"Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eDrawing on her experience as a volunteer interpreter, Valeria Luiselli examines the experiences of undocumented Latin American children arriving in the United States and facing possible deportation. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThe essay is structured around the forty questions she translated and asked children during immigration intake interviews, using the questionnaire to reveal the complicated bureaucratic process through which their individual circumstances are evaluated. Luiselli considers the violence, instability, and other dangers that can drive children to leave their homes, as well as the hazardous journeys they undertake through Mexico toward the U.S. border. She contrasts their personal stories with the impersonal language and procedures of the immigration system, exploring how complex human experiences must be translated into answers that fit legal categories. \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBlending reportage, personal reflection, and social commentary, the book examines migration, childhood, borders, citizenship, displacement, and the human consequences of immigration policy while emphasizing the individual lives behind broader debates about migration.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\"Humane yet often horrifying, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eTell Me How It Ends\u003c\/span\u003e offers a compelling, intimate look at a continuing crisis—and its ongoing cost in an age of increasing urgency.\" —Jeremy Garber, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ePowell's Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ePoint Reyes Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eTell Me How It Ends\u003c\/span\u003e evokes empathy as it educates. It is a vital contribution to the body of post-Trump work being published in early 2017.\"—Katharine Solheim, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eUnabridged Bookstore\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42979847635024,"sku":"9781566894951B","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/tell-me-how-it-ends-an-essay-in-40-questions","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}