Tell Me How It Ends

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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. Free Read Books Tell Me How It Ends Author Valeria Luiselli – kino-fada.fr Sharp, short essay that shines a light on how America treats undocumented children Luiselli, who s an excellent writer though emotion veers in and out of this piece in unusual cadence , has worked in the federal immigration system as a translator and cannily structures the essay around the 40 questions that she asked children when trying to pair them with a lawyer The goal is less about making an argument andabout trying to re shift the grounds of discussion by breaking down the dangers Sharp, short essay that shines a light on how America treats undocumented children Luiselli, who s an excellent writer ...Ik kies ervoor om alleen verslag uit te brengen van een boek dat ik een aanrader vind Je kunt maar beter energie steken in iets wat je zinvol vindt Het lastige is dat ik soms niet meteen weet hoe ik van mijn leeservaring verslag moet doen.Afgelopen week hield de vraag me bezig waarom je Vertel me het einde van Valeria Luiselli moest lezen Of beter ik wist wel waarom, maar hoe vertel ik het je Ik ben al enige tijd fan van WoodsDoc www.woodsdoc.com , een nomadisch filmfestival dat in Antw Ik kies ervoor om alleen verslag uit te brengen van een boek dat ik een aanrader vind Je kunt maar beter energie steken in iets wat je zinvol vindt Het lastige is dat ik soms niet meteen weet hoe ik van mijn leeservaring verslag moet doen.Afgelopen week hield de vraag me bezig waarom je Vertel me het einde van Valeria Luiselli moest lezen Of beter ik wist wel waarom, maar hoe vertel ik het je Ik ben al enige tijd fan van WoodsDoc www....It is perhaps not the American Dream they pursue, but rather themodest aspiration to wake up from the nightmare into which they were born I wish I could force every person who chants build a wall or asks why can t they just come here legally to read this book The 40 questions from the title are those Luiselli asks of detained children as a volunteer interpreter in federal immigration courts, and she uses this structure to give a concise, impassioned plea for us to recognize these chIt is perhaps not the American Dream they pursue, but rather themodest aspiration to wake up from the nightmare into which they were born I wish I could force every person who chants build a wall or asks why can t they just come here legally to read this book The 40 questions from the title are those Luiselli asks of detained children as a volunteer interpreter in federal immigration courts, and she uses this structure to give a concise, impassioned plea for us to recognize these children for what they are refugees fleeing unimaginable violence, violence the US has had a significant hand in creating and inflaming If you ve read her fiction, you know she s a br...Review originally posted on A Skeptical Reader.In Tell Me How It Ends, Valeria Luiselli takes us through the process of reviewing undocumented children stuck in a limbo of red tapes The book gives us a glimpse of the treacherous journey these children make when crossing the southern borders of the United States And no, they are not rapists or drug dealers They are victims of violence and the world needs to start recognizing them as such.It begin...De grote kracht van dit boek essay is dat het de menselijke kant toont van de vluchtelingencrisis Want in de parade van termen als de grenzen sluiten, illegalen en vrijwillige repatri ring vergeten we gemakshalve dat het om echte mensen gaat, op de vlucht voor een onleefbare situatie.Ik...This short and powerful nonfiction piece by Valeria Luiselli is such a poignantly constructed insight into the immigration crisis debate in America now Luiselli relates her experiences working as a volunteer interviewing thousands of children from Central America who have been smuggled into the United States and are seeking residency citizenship She asks them questions from an intake questionnaire created by immigration lawyers that will play a large part in determining if the children will be This short and powerful nonfiction piece by Valeria Luiselli is such a poignantly constructed insight into the immigration crisis debate in America now Luiselli relates her experiences working as a volunteer interviewing thousands of children from Central America who have been smuggled into the United States and are seeking residency citizenship She asks them questions from an intake questionnaire created by immigration lawyers that will play a large part in determining if the children will be granted status to remain or face deportation Going through the questions one at a time she explains the way the immigration system is designed to keep as many people out as possible without accounting for these children s vulnerable situation or America s role in the creation of this crisis At the same time, she relates her personal experiences as a Mexican immigrant whose own ability to work was restricted because of a delay with her visa It s an achingly personal book that makes a stro...with gifted prose and a compassionate, but penetrating gaze, luiselli personalizes the ongoing plight of latin american child migrants in the united states her own immersion as a translator informs a trenchant first hand account of the labyrinthine legal processes and inevitable bureaucratic indifference faced by undocumented youth humane yet often horrifying, tell me how it ends offers a compelling, intimate look at a continuing crisis and its ongoing cost in an age of increasing urgency i with gifted prose and a compassionate, but penetrating gaze, luiselli personalizes the ongoing plight of latin american child migrants in the united states her own immersion as a translator informs a trenchant first hand account of the labyrinthine legal processes and inevita...My review for the Chicago Tribune much of the appeal of truly brilliant creative writing can be explained by the saying, It s not what you say, but how you say it, and the way that Valeria Luiselli says what she has to say in her latest publication, the book length essay, Tell Me How It Ends, is simultaneously dazzling and apt.Subtitled An Essay in Forty Questions, the book looks at an all too familiar and troubling topic in an utterly fresh yet My review for the Chicago Tribune much of the appeal of truly brilliant creative writing can be explained by the saying, It s not what you say, but how you say it, and the way that Valeria Luiselli says what she has to say in her latest publication, the book length essay, Tell Me How It Ends, is simultaneously dazzling and apt.Subt...i m such a Valeria Luiselli fangirl her prose is like honey on the tongue, it s sweet and syrupy and sticky, it s like a pantry good, some delicacy to always have in supply it s a gift that as readers we are blessed to even have received i m serious i m a fangirl.unlike her novels, but also very much like her novels, this piece is afforded a considerable amount of brutality in its reading simply based off subject matter not only is it concerned with our truly systemic horror show of an immi i m such a Valeria Luiselli fangirl her prose is like honey on the tongue, it s sweet and syrupy and sticky, it s like a pantry good, some delicacy to always have in supply it s a gift that as readers we are blessed to even have received i m serious i m a fangirl.unlike her novels, but also very much like her novels, this piece is afforded a considerable amount of brutality in its reading simply based off subject matter not only is it concerned with our truly systemic horror show of an immigration system, but specifically it constricts the optic onto the way the system brutalizes migrant children i cannot imagine the unending agony of working as a translator for spanish speaking refugee children and maintaining an undue sense of distance and ...On Page 96 of this work, as it begins to wrap itself toward no end, Luiselli writes There are things that can only be understood retrospectively, when many years have passed and the story has ended In the meantime, while the story continues, the only thing to do is tell it over and over again as it develops, bifurcates, knots around itself And it must be told, because before anything can be understood, it has to be narrated many times, in may different words and from many different angles, b On Page 96 of this work, as it begins to wrap its...

Tell Me How It Ends
  • 17 May 2018
  • Paperback
  • 128 pages
  • 1566894956
  • Valeria Luiselli
  • Tell Me How It Ends