“Where Luiselli’s earlier work was marked by an elegant, hyper-literary sensibility, this compassionate new one finds her in a head-on confrontation with daily reality … This book is fueled, in no small part, by Luiselli’s bottled up shame and rage. She’s aghast at the gap between American ideals and the way we actually treat undocumented children … Still, for all its nuts-and-bolts look at the immigration process, what makes Tell Me How It Ends so moving and humane is that Luiselli doesn’t serve up a catalogue of horror stories that soon grows numbing. In a touch that personalizes the migrant story, she deftly links the experiences of migrant children with her own efforts to get a green card and make a life here with her family.”
–John Powers, NPR, April 6, 2017
