![]() ![]() “More broadly, it is a text that asks us to wrestle with the history of U.S. ![]() “‘Tell Me How It Ends’ explores a timely and important issue - one that brings our collective attention to the often less-visible issues of immigration status that impact some of the students in our own VCU community and beyond,” said Shelli Fowler, Ph.D., interim dean of University College and director of the VCU Common Book Program. ![]() Luiselli, a novelist, essayist and volunteer interpreter for undocumented migrant children in New York, provides readers with a close look at the young migrants’ journey and their difficulties navigating the immigration system. “Tell Me How It Ends” is structured around the 40 questions on the intake questionnaire given to migrant children as they are taken into custody and that will determine whether they are given legal status. “ Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions” (Coffee House Press), a 2017 book by Valeria Luiselli that explores the plight of undocumented children facing deportation from the United States, has been selected as Virginia Commonwealth University’s 2018 Common Book. ![]()
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