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laurabermejogago's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
nataliedc's review
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
~read for ENG-CMP 1551 History & Politics of English Language course~
chillcox15's review
4.0
If I had a couple spare billion dollar bills around I would use them to buy a copy of this book for every household (and apartment and shelter and barracks and every other living situation in America) and mail them out with a post-it that reads: "Please read this short book. It will probably take you less than two hours. Tell someone how you feel at the end."
rienthril's review
5.0
Crucial and timely: a heartbreaking snapshot of the migration of Central American children into the US through the lens of questions posed in their screening forms when being paired with immigration lawyers. Luiselli, a novelist, has served as a translator in these screening processes. She beautifully evokes the tragedy and humanity of these children's stories and argues for American culpability in the conditions that caused the migration crisis that received widespread media attention in 2014. Alongside concurrent migration crises in the world, Luiselli's book reminds me of Warsan Shire's poem "Home": No one leaves home unless / home is the mouth of a shark."