![]() The essay cross-cuts between her experience taking in the biased, sometimes racist depiction of the migrant children on the radio during their vacation and the beginning of her volunteer work helping them navigate the court system during the existence of a special juvenile docket that rapidly speeds up the deportation process. At the time, she is waiting on news of her own green card, and she sees the parallels between her family and the children on the news. In the opening section, Luiselli recalls the trip across the American Southwest that she took with her family in 2014, which is the first time she hears of the undocumented children arriving at the Southern border. The essay is broken up into four parts and a coda. ![]() Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions loosely follows the questionnaire Luiselli used to help interview undocumented children to determine if their experience warranted asylum or special immigrant status in the United States upon their arrival. ![]()
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