Tell Me How It Ends
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Tell Me How It Ends

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Valeria Luiselli
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The Police Report

In Tell Me How It Ends, the police report that Manu presents to Luiselli (and later to his lawyers) comes to represent the stringent nature of the United States’ immigration system. The police report…

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