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Tell Me How It Ends is a powerful and compassionate essay by Valeria Luiselli, based on her personal experiences as a volunteer translator assisting child immigrants within the U.S immigration system. From her own perspective as an immigrant, Luiselli skillfully reveals the deep human costs embedded within America’s broken immigration policies and the hopes for meaningful solutions beyond physical barriers. The book skillfully blends empathy and education, confronting the reader with the harsh realities and dangers children face while seeking a safer, better future. At once humane and sometimes terrifying, Luiselli’s work explores urgent moral issues brought into stark relief during the post-Trump era. Although concise, this essay delves deeply into critical contemporary questions and highlights America’s ongoing refugee crisis in an honest, intimate, and insightful manner. Ultimately, Tell Me How It Ends is more than merely relevant―it is vital reading and a necessary, profoundly moving contribution to understanding today’s pressing immigration crisis.