This book follows three main characters. Lizze who is college student studying nursing who then meets Ryan a classmate. Lizze thinks Ryan is cute and asks him to tutor her so she can get to know him better. Lizze one night goes out with some friends and meets Jude who keeps her on her toes and challenges her. Lizze doesn’t know for a small portion of the book that Jude and Ryan are brothers. Jude practically raised Ryan so they are very close. Lizzie meets shy, nerdy, super cute, Shakespeare-loving Ryan first. She’s attracted to him and asks him to tutor her—yeah, that kind of tutoring sessions, but Ryan doesn’t realize it at first. Cute. There’s just this small problem. Ryan’s brother? Yeah… He’s the guy Lizzie can’t stop thinking about, and when he sees him again, she realizes he can’t stop thinking about her, either. This plan isn’t that far removed from what Gallant, the defense minister, has described as the Israeli plan—which has the army leaving Gaza at the end of the war. But Netanyahu would never be able to implement it. His government has long sought to cast aside the PA to appease the settlers and religious zealots in his coalition, who regard it as a primary obstacle to their biblical vision of Greater Israel.

This essay, besides its aesthetic value, is a bold political statement and writing in the service of social activism.” —Latin American Literature Today How long am I supposed to pretend that I don’t have a right to care? That I don’t want you? That I don’t need you?” Translating language, experience, bodies across space and time, thought and culture—Luiselli wants us to join in this work. Tell Me How It Ends calls for a wholesale reimagining of both the forces that have shaped contemporary immigration into the United States as well as the way many Americans, disconnected from fact, picture it. It calls, moreover, for action.” —Brooklyn Magazine

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With gifted prose and a compassionate but penetrating gaze, Luiselli personalizes the ongoing plight of Latin American child migrants in the United States. Her own immersion as a translator informs a trenchant first-hand account of the labyrinthine legal processes and inevitable bureaucratic indifference faced by undocumented youth. Humane yet often horrifying, Tell Me How It Ends offers a compelling, intimate look at a continuing crisis—and its ongoing cost in an age of increasing urgency.” —Jeremy Garber, Powell’s Books There were a few things here and there that I wished had been different, but they’re so small compared to the beauty of the relationships and the complexity of these characters and the situation they were involved…

These lofty-sounding themes take immediate, painfully concrete form in her latest book, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, a deceptively slim volume just out from Coffee House Press. Where Luiselli's earlier work was marked by an elegant, hyper-literary sensibility, this compassionate new one finds her in a head-on confrontation with daily reality.Henrietta just secured a new job, meeting with patients who are about to die to help them write their life story. At this job she meets Annie, whose sister disappeared when she was nineteen and never resurfaced. Annie is only expected to make it until Christmas so their time to create this book is very short. Annie discusses more about her tragic story and how she had to marry a not so great person to get out of her house. Henrietta becomes very invested in Annie's story and sets out to help her uncover what really happened to her beloved sister. While she's helping out Annie, she starts to come to some realizations about some traumatic events that happened to her as a child. Luiselli effectively humanizes the plights of those who have been demonized or who have been reduced to faceless numbers. . . . A powerful call to action and to empathy.” —Kirkus Look, I know a lot of people have problems with love triangles, but I can’t fault this one. I really can’t. Lizzie acted human (she made mistakes), but she was a good human (she tried really hard not to get between the brothers or cause permanent damage, and I think she succeeded). Ryan and Jude didn’t let a girl destroy the bond they had. The author didn’t turn them into idiots. In the contrary, she made me care for all three of them. She made me suffer and laugh and flirt with them. I couldn’t ask for anything else. The next book to be featured on the Zoe Ball Radio 2 Book Club will be Tell Me How This Ends, the captivating debut novel by Jo Leevers. The book is released on 1 May and Jo will be on the show with Zoe on Tuesday 25 April.