Winner of the 2018 American Book Award
Finalist for the 2017 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction
Finalist for the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century
“As in her hallucinatory and inventive fiction, Luiselli proves her skill as a storyteller while grappling with her own questions of nationalism.”
—The New Yorker
“A book of staggering emotional power and an incitement to deep shame.”
—Harper’s
“Quietly brilliant. . . . The account that emerges has no fixed origin, and the crisis, as Luiselli wisely points out, belongs not to any specific country or countries but to all of us living in this corner of the world.”
—The New York Times Sunday Book Review
“Luiselli takes us inside the grand dream of migration, offering the valuable reminder that exceedingly few immigrants abandon their past and brave death to come to America for dark or nasty reasons. They come as an expression of hope.”
—NPR
“Tell Me How It Ends is unsparing in its portrayal of vulnerability and determination.”
—Rolling Stone
“A remarkable little work that, through its narrow lens, says more about the country than books ten times its size.”
—GQ
“So true and moving that it filled me with hopeless hope.”
—The Guardian
“Luiselli has woven an essential moral text for an age of migration.”
—Vulture
“[Tell Me How It Ends] might just be the most important book you read this year.”
—Bustle
“[Luiselli] combines the skills of a journalist who has a sharp eye for significant details with a novelist’s empathy.”
—Times Literary Supplement
“Sharp and compelling, Tell Me How It Ends demands that [these children] be seen.”
—World Literature Today
“Tell Me How it Ends is the kind of reading experience that rips your heart out. . . . Simply put, this is required reading.”
—Vol. 1 Brooklyn
“Tell Me How It Ends is intimate, heartbreaking, and revealing—and I am convinced the country would be a better place if everyone were required to read it.”
—Shondaland
