Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here is a masterpiece that everybody, everybody should read.

Javier Zamora, New York Times bestselling author of Solito

[A] timely and instructive history of the immigration crisis . . . The strangers at our border have a familiar history that Blitzer tells in meticulous and vivid detail. It is our own.

The New York Times

I really loved it. I couldn’t put it down.

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, author of The Undocumented Americans

This book will tear your heart out . . . The main characters are drawn with the richness of great fiction.

William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Barbarian Days

With rare humanity, narrative acumen, and a detective’s eye for the telling detail, Jonathan Blitzer has given the U.S.-Central American immigration crisis the epic treatment that it deserves . . . A remarkable and invaluable achievement.

Jon Lee Anderson, bestselling author of Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

A decades-long regional tragedy plays out in riveting detail, and no one who reads Jonathan Blitzer’s marvelous new book will ever view the current headlines in quite the same way.

Daniel Alarcón, author of At Night We Walk in Circles and Lost City Radio

Everyone Who Is Gone is Here is a book about immigration of unparalleled significance: a definitive history of the human tragedy wrought by decades of flawed U.S. policies

Eliza Griswold, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Amity and Prosperity

Powerful and deeply compelling

Ana Raquel Minian, author of In the Shadow of Liberty

Writing with clarity and grace, while avoiding the mawkish tone sometimes associated with tales of the border, Blitzer makes a compelling case that the United States and Central America are knit as one.

The Washington Post

This book begins the reckoning we desperately need.

The Atlantic

Blitzer weaves the strands of oral history and hard data to vivid effect here. His keen eye for nuance in language, as well as a gift for setting and pacing, hold this multi-narrative work together and help create a sense of urgency.

Alta Journal

This is one of the pre-eminent political issues of our time, and Blitzer explores it in reportage of the expensive, often courageous, gumshoe kind . . . breathtaking.

The Guardian

Everyone Who is Gone is Here is a superb achievement and will rank among the best books on the subject. The writing is a delight, never ostentatious but always evocative, capturing the stories of ordinary people caught up in the sweeping net of US immigration enforcement, while also illuminating the cold, behind-the-scenes calculations that determine their fates.

Prospect