A New York Times bestseller
Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize
One of Barack Obama''s Summer Reading List Picks
Named a Book of the Year in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune and Newsweek
''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 l
