Most children came from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras—the three countries that make up the Northern Triangle—and practically all of them were fleeing gang violence. The tension in the book was phenomenal. Even though the premise of the book isn't necessarily something new, the way it is written and the emotions behind the characters were authentic and so well done. I loved everything about this book. Everything. Once I started reading, I couldn't put it down, and once it was over, I was depressed! I thought this was a terrific book and totally suitable for discussion at a Book Club. Henrietta has recently started a job transcribing the Life Stories of the terminally ill. Despite initially liking the structure of the interviewing procedures, she soon realises not all lives fit the formula. She becomes intrigued by the life story of one client, Annie, whose sister Kath disappeared in December 1974. Knowing that with Annie nearing the end of her life time is short, Henrietta sets about investigating Kath’s disappearance. Although death and dying feature large in the book, it is not gloomy; genuinely more a celebration of life and an unspoken edict to make the most of our time and say what needs saying while we can. That in itself would be a good, life-affirming book, but coupled with an intriguing cold-case complete with plot twists, as well as quirky characters and incidents from the ‘Grief Café’, it makes for an excellent and engaging read. Really accessible and readable but plenty to discuss as well.”

Question seven on the questionnaire is “Did anything happen on your trip to the U.S. that scared you or hurt you?” The children seldom give details of their experiences along the journey through Mexico upon a first screening, and it’s not necessarily useful to push them for more information. What happens to them between their home countries and their arrival in the United States can’t always help their defense before an immigration judge, so the question doesn’t make up a substantial part of the interview. But, as a Mexican, this is the question I feel most ashamed of, because what happens to children during their journey through Mexico is always worse than what happens anywhere else. Ironically, Henrietta, the main character in Tell Me How This Ends, is a self-confessed ‘failed librarian’. But to me, librarians are heroes. Countless times, books have made me feel ‘seen’, lifted me up or spirited me away to another world – and librarians have been my best guides. Long live libraries and the life-changing ways they bring us together to share stories and expand our horizons." Get involved Translating language, experience, bodies across space and time, thought and culture—Luiselli wants us to join in this work. Tell Me How It Ends calls for a wholesale reimagining of both the forces that have shaped contemporary immigration into the United States as well as the way many Americans, disconnected from fact, picture it. It calls, moreover, for action.” —Brooklyn Magazine Valeria Luiselli’s account of discussions with undocumented children from Latin America facing deportation from the U.S. is a vital book.” —Vol. 1 Brooklyn In some ways, this vision is more plausible today than when Olmert first imagined it in 2008. Israel has spent the past decade deepening its relations with Arab states in the Gulf, which have been unnerved by Iran’s rise and eager to collaborate with Israel’s tech sector. These countries share Israel’s abiding animosity toward the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist movement of which Hamas is a part, and consider it a profound threat to their own regimes.Lizzie has been crushing on this guy in her class and decides to ask him to tutor her. Around the same time, she meets a man who she has an undeniable chemistry with. But she’s too afraid to try. In fact I would go further - it is not possible to properly appreciated Lost Children Archive without reading it. A key part of Lost Children Archive is the inter-textual references - and Tell Me How It Ends functions as an ur-text for the later novel.

Tell Me How It Ends] is written from a transnational perspective, and all the more lucid for it.” —The InterceptAs in her hallucinatory and inventive fiction, Luiselli proves her skill as a storyteller while grappling with her own questions of nationalism.” —The New Yorker