Description
A powerful polemic about the US-Mexico border and what is happening to the tens of thousands of children arriving in the US without papers 'We are driving across Oklahoma in early June when we first hear about the waves of children arriving, alone and undocumented, from Mexico and Central America. Tens of thousands have been detained at the border. What will happen to them? Where are the parents? And why have they undertaken a terrifying, life-threatening journey to enter the United States?' Valeria Luiselli works as a volunteer at the federal immigration court in New York City, translating for unaccompanied migrant children. Out of her work has come this book - a search for answers and an urgent appeal for humanity and compassion in response to mass migration, the most significant global phenomenon of our time.
About the Author
David Ryan is the author of the story collection Animals in Motion (Roundabout Press). Recent stories appear, or are forthcoming, in The O. Henry Prize 2022, New England Review, The Common, Juked, Fiction, Harvard Review, Fiction International, Conjunctions, Diagram, New Letters, and elsewhere.
Past work appears in The Threepenny Review, The Kenyon Review, Tin House, Esquire, BOMB, Fence, Bellevue Literary Review, The Southampton Review, Peripheries Journal, Cimarron Review, Denver Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly, and elsewhere.
A recent Artistic Excellence Fellow with the Connecticut Office of the Arts, he teaches in the writing programs of Sarah Lawrence College and New England College.
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