Tell Me How It Is: An Essay in Forty Questions
Author: Valeria Luiselli
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Print Length: 128 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Essay, Journalism
Area: North America, South/Latin America, The United States of America (USA)
Topic: Borders, Citizenship, Governance, Hostility, Immigration Control, Immigration System, Lived Experience, Politics & Power, Racism & Anti-Racism, Refugees & Forced Migration, Asylum & Asylum Seekers, Asylum & Refugee System, Security, Social Justice
Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American children facing deportation, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman’s essay of the same name) humanizes these young migrants and highlights the contradiction of the idea of America as a fiction for immigrants with the reality of racism and fear both here and back home.
Table of Contents
Introduction
I. Border
II. Court
III. Home
IV. Community
Coda (Eight Brief Postscripta)
Acknowledgments
Sources
Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983 and grew up in South Africa. Her novels and essays have been translated into many languages and her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Granta, and McSweeney’s. Some of her recent projects include a ballet libretto for the choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, performed by the New York City Ballet in Lincoln Center in 2010; a pedestrian sound installation for the Serpentine Gallery in London; and a novella in installments for workers in a juice factory in Mexico. She lives in New York City. She is the author of Sidewalks (2013), Faces in the Crowd (2014), The Story of My Teeth (2015), Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions (2017) and Lost Children Archive (2019). She is the recipient of a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship and the winner of DUBLIN Literary Award, two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, The Carnegie Medal, an American Book Award, and has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kirkus Prize, and the Booker Prize.
Source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33608721-tell-me-how-it-ends & https://english.fas.harvard.edu/people/valeria-luiselli
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