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Valeria Luiselli is a novelist, essayist, and Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Hofstra University. Her books include Sidewalks, Faces in the Crowd, The Story of My Teeth, and Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions.
Following the 2014 immigration crisis, Valeria Luiselli began volunteering at a New York City immigration court. This is what she heard.
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