![]() ![]() The book is also personal and reflective, perceptive and vulnerable-an autobiographical narrative of its author’s experiences working with children trapped in a brutal bureaucratic system: federal immigration court. ![]() readers) the news and information they desperately need to learn, even if they would rather remain undereducated and unaware. In just 119 pages, Luiselli’s book-like the best journalism-performs an invaluable service by giving readers (particularly U.S. This is because America’s major periodicals are mainly in the service, news, and information business and are reluctant to publish personal or reflective literary prose.” Leaving aside Atwan’s reference to specific types of publication venues, his distinction between journalistic and essayistic writing serves to emphasize how unusual Valeria Luiselli’s Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions truly is. In “Notes towards the Definition of an Essay,” Robert Atwan, editor of the Best American Essays book series, writes, “I can usually go through an entire year of America’s popular magazines and find at best only one true essay per periodical a year. ![]()
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