Ep. 88 Tell Me How It Ends by Valeria Luiselli -- The Stacks Book Club (Ayser Salman)
Today on The Stacks Book Club we discuss Tell Me How It Ends by Valeria Luiselli, a book that looks at the immigration crisis at the US/Mexico border for the children who make the journey unaccompanied. Our guest Ayser Salman (The Wrong End of the Table) joins the show to talk about empathy, the language around immigration, and what we can do to help.
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Everything we talk about on today's episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.
The Wrong End of the Table by Ayser Salman
Tell Me How it Ends by Valeria Luiselli
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
"U.S. Held Nearly 70,000 Migrant Kids in Custody in 2019, Government Data Shows" (Christopher Sherman, Martha Mendoza. and Garance Burke, Time)
The Muslim Ban Timeline (ACLU Washington)
"Spicer earns Four Pinocchios for false claims on inauguration crowd size" (Glenn Kessler, The Washington Post)
How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev
Green Book (Peter Farrelly, 2018)
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
"Opposites Attract" (Paula Abdul, 1988)
Stars--They're Just Like Us (Us Weekly)
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