Urgent, extraordinary . . . a tribute to the astonishing indomitability of the human spirit

A moving, sweeping, and masterful look at migration to the US and the many ways American policy has actually propelled people to make these journeys . . . There are messages here not just for America, but for rich countries across the world implementing increasingly cruel policies to try and stop migration at any cost.

What an incredibly thorough documentation of the causes of the immigration crisis, the discussions that have been going on through multiple administrations.

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here is a searing, gut-wrenching, and masterfully reportedaccount of one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the twenty-first century.

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

[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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Powerful and deeply compelling

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.

This book begins the reckoning we desperately need.

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.

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.

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.