tell me how it ends an essay in forty questions

In 2014, Faces in the Crowd was the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award. A novelist ( Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth) and essayist ( Sidewalks and Tell Me How It Ends), her work has been translated into many languages. Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983 and grew up in South Africa. Free admission, first come, first served tickets available at the box office two hours prior to start of program. Join Luiselli as she discusses the process of writing Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, the need for “mapping” stories, and her thoughts on the similarities between novels and contemporary art with Jill Medvedow, Ellen Matilda Poss Director. ICA Reads: Valeria Luiselli with Jill Medvedow, Thursday, April 5, 7 PM

Luiselli weaves together her personal stories with snippets she hears from immigrant children, highlighting the contradiction between the idea of America as a fiction for immigrants and the reality of racism and fear-both here and back home. Her innovative storytelling, structured around the forty official immigration questions that unaccompanied immigrant children facing deportation must answer, humanizes a fraught and contentious topic. Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions is a short, insightful retelling of Luiselii’s personal experience as a translator for children migrating to the United States, predominately from Central America. An artful take on the book club, ICA Reads-now in partnership with local literary organizations GrubStreet and Mass LEAP-presents a book of critical and societal importance and an opportunity to gather for discussion and meet the author. The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) announces its 2018 ICA Reads selection, Valeria Luiselli’s Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions.

Tell me how it ends an essay in forty questions