The stories are harrowing and heartbreaking. She uses the form’s questions as jumping off points to describe the bureaucratic nightmare the children face to get immigration status, and the horrific circumstances that forced them to leave countries in violent turmoil like El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, and run a gauntlet of potential gang violence, rape and death through Mexico to get here. Luiselli worked as a federal court interpreter in New York City, helping children who came to the United States alone fill in an intake questionnaire. I was originally going to send this review next week, but this essay in book form is so informative, sobering and important that I wanted to tell you about it now while you still have time to pick it up and read it before the election.
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