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What to expect

'Urgent, extraordinary . . . a tribute to the astonishing indomitability of the human spirit.' - Patrick Radden Keefe, bestselling author Empire of Pain

'Moving, sweeping, and masterful' - Sally Hayden, author of My Fourth Time, We Drowned

New Yorker journalist Jonathan Blitzer has been covering the immigration crisis at America’s southern border for nearly a decade, but the current emergency is the end of a much larger story. In this, his first book, Blitzer goes back to the beginning: to the shadowy civil wars in El Salvador and Guatemala in the 1980s; to the American prison system in the 1990s and the policies of mass deportation that transformed local street criminals into international crime syndicates; to Honduras’s brutal crackdown on crime in the 2000s and the emergence of gangs across Central America and the United States. And then the Trump era, in which immigration became a vector of resurgent populism, with mass internments the order of the day.

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here is a fresh and full account of America’s immigration problems, but it is much more than that. It is an odyssey of struggle and resilience, telling the epic story of people whose lives ebb and flow across the border and those who help and hinder them. It is a gripping and persuasive attempt to answer not only the question of how America got there, but the vital question of who we are and who we want to be in our liberal Western democracies, whether we are incarcerating children on our southern borders or watching them drown on the shores of the Mediterranean.

'What an incredibly thorough documentation of the causes of the immigration crisis, the discussions that have been going on through multiple administrations.' - Jon Stewart, The Daily Show

Critics Review

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

    Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain

  • 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.

    Sally Hayden, author of My Fourth Time, We Drowned

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

    Jon Stewart, The Daily Show

  • 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.

    Jill Lepore, New York Times bestselling author of These Truths: A History of the United States

  • 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

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