A review by rienthril
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay In Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli

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."