Tell me how it ends : an essay in forty questions

Tell me how it ends : an essay in forty questions / Valeria Luiselli.

"Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American children facing deportation, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman's essay of the same name) humanizes these young migrants and highlights the contradiction of the idea of Americ...

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Main Author: Luiselli, Valeria, 1983- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Spanish
Published: Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Immigrant children > United States > Social conditions.
Illegal alien children > United States > Social conditions.
Immigrant children > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Illegal alien children > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Deportation > Social aspects > United States.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Essays.
Uniform Title:Niños perdidos.
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Summary:"Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American children facing deportation, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman's essay of the same name) humanizes these young migrants and highlights the contradiction of the idea of America as a fiction for immigrants with the reality of racism and fear--both here and back home"--
Item Description:"A shorter version of this essay was originally written in English and appeared in Freeman's in 2016. The author then rewrote the essay in Spanish and, while doing so, expanded upon it. That version was published as Los niños perdidos (Un ensayo en cuarenta preguntas) by Sexto Piso in 2016" -- Title page verso.
Physical Description:119 pages ; 20 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781566894951
1566894956
Language:Translated from Spanish.

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