Either status might allow them to remain in the United States, offering a path to a green card and, eventually, to citizenship.
The subtitle of this slim and devastatingly straightforward volume is “An Essay in Forty Questions.” The questions that structure Luiselli’s book are taken from the intake questionnaire that all “unaccompanied migrant children” must answer in order to determine whether or not they will be eligible for asylum or SIJ (special immigration juvenile) status. Her latest work of nonfiction, Tell Me How It Ends (Coffee House Press, 2017), emerges from that time spent as a translator. Bilingual and with unexpected time on her hands, she begins volunteering as a translator with The Door, a nonprofit that matches immigrant and refugee children with legal assistance and other services. In 2015, having recently immigrated to the United States, she learns that her Green Card application process has been unaccountably delayed.
Valeria Luiselli is a Mexican writer whose novels and essays are formally complex and often surreal.
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
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