![]() ![]() These lofty-sounding themes take immediate, painfully concrete form in her latest book, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, a deceptively slim volume just out from Coffee House Press. Not surprisingly, her first three books - two novels and a collection of essays - are bursting with ideas on dislocation, national identity and knowing where you belong. 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.īorn in Mexico City to an Italian family, Luiselli spent her childhood in South Africa, her teens in Mexico and now lives in New York with her husband and their kids. These days, the whole world, including our politics, is being shaped by migration. I think his claim may be even truer of the 21st century. How?īack in the 1980s, Salman Rushdie wrote that the defining figure of the 20th century was the migrant. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Tell Me How It Ends Subtitle An Essay in Forty Questions Author Valeria Luiselli and Jon Lee Anderson ![]()
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