Migration Touches Every Life

Valeria Luiselli is no stranger to incorporating tangible records of the world in her writing. In The Story of My Teeth, she exchanged audio recordings with a group of Grupo Jumex workers at a juice factory in Mexico. In Tell Me How It Ends, she listened to, transcribed, and interpreted the testimonies of undocumented children. In Lost Children Archive, the protagonist is a sound documentarist. In Echoes from the Borderlands, Luiselli moved beyond the page to bring the US-Mexico border to life in a 24-hour sonic essay/chapbook that was originally presented as a sound installation. Her newest novel, Beginning Middle End, is written in fragments and includes the sounds of volcanoes e...