![]() ![]() There is trauma and distress, grief and anger, but also fear and distrust. And yet, these questions provoke personal stories that are often complex and upsetting. The questionnaire seems banal and simple, the questions, if you don’t give them enough thought, are plain and ordinary. Her task was to interview the children using an intake questionnaire for unaccompanied child migrants and then translate their stories from Spanish into English to be used in the federal immigration court in New York City. Valeria Luiselli, a Mexican author that lives in the New York, began volunteering as an interpreter for the children, many of whom speak no English. Although the children had been coming from all around Central America, most of them were from three countries Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. It was born after the so-called 2014 immigration crisis, when a sudden surge of children had arrived alone, without parents or any other adults to the United States, seeking asylum. Tell Me How It Ends is a 100-page essay structured around forty questions. ![]()
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