Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

A National Bestseller ΓÇó A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2024 ΓÇó Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker,Chicago TribuneNewsweekPBS NewsHourLitHubKirkus ReviewsPublishers LunchChristian Science Monitorand Counterpunch ΓÇó One of Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List Picks ΓÇó Named a Notable Book by New York Times and Washington Post ΓÇó Nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction ΓÇ£What an incredibly thorough documentation of the causes of the immigration crisisthe discussions that have been going on through multiple administrations.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöJon StewartThe Daily Show ΓÇ£Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here is sure to take its place as one of the definitive accounts of the U.S. and Central American immigration puzzle. . . . Hopefullythose with the power to change things will listen.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöManuel Roig-FranziaWashington Post An epicheartbreakingand deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the southern border told through the lives of the migrants forced to risk everything and the policymakers who determine their fateby New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer Everyone who makes the journey faces an impossible choice. Hundreds of thousands of people who arrive every year at the US-Mexico border travel far from their homes. For yearsthe majority came from El SalvadorGuatemalaand Hondurasbut many more have begun their journey much farther away. Some flee persecutionothers crime or hunger. They may have already been deportedbut the United States remains their only hope for safety and prosperity. They will take their chances. As Jonathan Blitzer dramatizes with forensicunprecedented reportingthis crisis is the result of decades of misguided policy and sweeping corruption. Brilliantly weaving the stories of Central Americans whose lives have been devastated by chronic political conflict and violence with those of American activistsgovernment officialsand the politicians responsible for the countryΓÇÖs tragically tangled immigration policyBlitzer reveals the fulllayered picture of this vast and unremitting conflict. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here tells the epic story of the people whose lives ebb and flow across the borderdelving into the heart of American life itself. This vital and remarkable story has shaped the nationΓÇÖs turbulent politics and culture in countless waysΓÇöand will almost certainly determine its future.