A moving, eye-opening polemic about the US-Mexico border and what happens to the thousands of unaccompanied Mexican and Central American kids arriving in the US without papers

‘We are traveling across Oklahoma in early June whenever we first hear about the waves of children arriving, alone and undocumented, from Mexico and Central America. Tens of thousands have already been detained at the border. Exactly what will happen to them? Where are the parents? And just why have they carried out a about Tell Me How it Ends: An Article in Forty Queries terrifying, life-threatening journey to enter america?’

Valeria Luiselli works as a volunteer on the federal government immigration courtroom in NEW YORK, translating for unaccompanied migrant kids. Out of her work has come this reserve – a search for answers and an urgent appeal for humanity and compassion in response to mass migration, the most significant global trend of our time.

‘So true and moving it packed me with hopeless wish’ Ali Smith

‘Harrowing, intimate, silently brilliant’

New York Occasions

‘The first must-read book of the Trump era’ Texas Observer

‘Upset and affecting. A slight book using a big influence’ Financial Times

‘There are numerous books addressing the plight of refugees. Tell Me How It Ends – lucid, plain-speaking and authoritative – is one of the most powerful’ Big Issue