Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

A National Bestseller • A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2024 • Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, LitHub, and Publishers Lunch • One of Barack Obama's Summer Reading List Picks • Named a Notable Book by New York Times, Washington Post, and Chicago Tribune • Nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction“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 sure to take its place as one of the definitive accounts of the U.S. and Central American immigration puzzle. . . . Hopefully, those with the power to change things will listen.” —Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington PostAn epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the southern border told through the lives of the migrants forced to risk everything and the policymakers