Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

Name: Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
Author: Jonathan Blitzer
ISBN: 9781984880826

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#2956 of 3,809 books · #165 in Politics & Current Affairs

Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest (2024).

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here was a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2024, and named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, PBS NewsHour, LitHub, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Lunch, Christian Science Monitor, and Counterpunch. 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 years, the majority came from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, but many more have begun their journey much farther away. Some flee persecution, others crime or hunger. They may have already been deported, but the United States remains their only hope for safety and prosperity. They will take their chances. As Jonathan Blitzer dramatizes with forensic, unprecedented reporting, this 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 activists, government officials, and the politicians responsible for the country's tragically tangled immigration policy, Blitzer reveals the full, layered 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 border, delving into the heart of American life itself. This vital and remarkable story has shaped the nation's turbulent politics and culture in countless ways—and will almost certainly determine its future.

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