Tell Me How This Ends: A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick

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This essential book humanizes these young migrants, highlights the contradictions of the American Dream, and explores the fear and racism so prevalent for the people who try to make the U.S. their home.” —Literary Hub Both instances are done with so much understanding for someone who might not know what it means. Like an open invite for the MC to be herself. The plot had the right vibes of simplicity to keep it cozy and easy to follow, but that didn't make it boring at all. There were definitely still plottwists I did not see coming. The balance was on point and made it become a fun light read. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt hatte ich noch keine Ahnung, dass dieser Roman darin, schon bald zu meinen Lieblingsbüchern gehören wird. Doch eins wusste ich sofort, der Klappentext verspricht eine besondere Geschichte zu werden. ⁣

Tell Me How It Ends is a book of staggering emotional power and an incitement to deep shame.” —Harper’s Myst was wonderful, too. He did let his emotions win at certain points but was always able to work it out. At the end of the day, it is a cozy YA fantasy about the importance of exploring who you are and the world around you. Kalaya…. I want more of her. She have an aura of invincibility around her ? And I really wish to see her friendship with Iris !In an essay as bracing as it is searing, the incomparable Valeria Luiselli explores the 2014 immigration crisis. Luiselli writes with a clarity that underscores the nightmarish conditions and nonsensical bureaucracy undocumented children face on their passage to America and toward U.S. citizenship. Tell Me How It Ends evokes empathy as it educates. It is a vital contribution to the body of post-Trump work being published in early 2017.” —Katharine Solheim, Unabridged Books Flirting, yes. Courting, no. I’m asexual, and somewhere on the aro spectrum. I’m not very interested in that kind of thing.” Wasn’t that wrong? Or was she the one out of line? Her siblings didn’t seem bothered by the world-changing issue, and her mother carried on with business. They were treating the situation as if a supplier had suddenly stopped selling to them, or transport ships were being delayed. Perhaps it wasn’t something she was supposed to be concerned about; she was a senti.”

Annie hat kein leichtes Leben, schon als Kind/Jugendliche stand sie sozusagen nur in der zweiten Reihe und auch als Erwachsene hat sich ihr Leben nicht wirklich verbessert.

These days, the whole world, including our politics, is being shaped by migration. Few people explore the nuances of this reality more skillfully than Valeria Luiselli, a strikingly gifted 33-year-old Mexican writer who knows the migratory experience first-hand. . . . 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 Given that Israel doesn’t want to occupy Gaza—and that its current government would reject its transfer to Palestinians—the question is, does Netanyahu truly want a total victory? In the most plausible (and most familiar) scenario that I heard described, the Netanyahu government prematurely ends its invasion, under pressure from the Biden administration, to restore stability in the region and in the global economy.

Luiselli effectively humanizes the plights of those who have been demonized or who have been reduced to faceless numbers. . . . A powerful call to action and to empathy.” —Kirkus I don’t know where to start, because I want this review to be somewhat coherent, but my mind at the moment is just so full of my love for these characters. I am a huge fan of the found family trope, it might even be my absolute favourite trope, and this book has a found family that makes me want to curl up in my bed and cry for hours. In a positive way.

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A powerful indictment of American immigration policy, [ Tell Me How It Ends] examines a system that has failed child refugees in particular.” —Financial Times Tell Me How It Ends braids the author’s personal experience with child refugees with the history and politics of how they came here and why.” — Ploughshares Blog This was a perfect cozy read. It was soft and wholesome, but still fun and exciting when it needed to be. Fond of zany vintage clothing and sweet treats, she’s an easy character to spend time with all the same. Not so 32-year-old Henrietta, who’s tasked with coaxing Annie’s life story out of her. A gauche, obsessively methodical missionary’s daughter, Henrietta lives alone with her dyspeptic rescue mutt Dave and descends from a long line of oddball literary heroines. Think Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant or Bonnie Garmus’s Elizabeth Zott but without the plausibility – at least initially.

Thank you to the author for the opportunity to read this advanced reader copy. This honest review was based off my experience reading this eARC, which in no way biased me. All opinions are my own. I want to preface this with the fact that I received an ARC from the author and all thoughts are mine. This is a vital document for understanding the crisis that immigrants to the U.S. are facing, and a call to action for those who find this situation appalling.” —Publishers Weekly Luiselli struggles with the linguistic and narrative difficulties of her job as an interpreter. She sometimes tells her daughter what she hears, and her daughter always asks how the stories end, though Luiselli is unable to answer this question. She also considers the fact that what a child says during the interview greatly affects whether or not they’ll be deported. If they answer the questions “correctly,” it’s more likely that a lawyer will agree to take their case. A “correct” answer, Luiselli explains, is one that is candid about the hardships a child has endured, making it clear why they can’t return to their home country.Jo Leevers grew up in London and has spent most of her career working on magazines, most recently writing features about homes and interiors for leading newspapers and magazines. This means she gets to visit people around the country and ask them about all the things in their homes. Some might call this a licence to be nosey… Zwei Menschen, deren Weg sich scheinbar zufällig kreuzt. Eigentlich sollte die eine die "Erzählerin" sein und die andere die "Zuhörerin". Bleiben die Grenzen klar oder verschwimmen sie? Wird die Lebensgeschichte erzählt oder bleibt sie unvollständig? Wesen Geschichte wird es letztendlich sein? Henrietta just secured a new job, meeting with patients who are about to die to help them write their life story. At this job she meets Annie, whose sister disappeared when she was nineteen and never resurfaced. Annie is only expected to make it until Christmas so their time to create this book is very short. Annie discusses more about her tragic story and how she had to marry a not so great person to get out of her house. Henrietta becomes very invested in Annie's story and sets out to help her uncover what really happened to her beloved sister. While she's helping out Annie, she starts to come to some realizations about some traumatic events that happened to her as a child. I don't know anything about tarot so especially in the beginning chapters they were a tad hard to follow because of that. A soft reminder that it is Okay not to have all the answers, to cut out abusive/toxic family members and to ask questions.