Dystopia Nonfiction Book Club: Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

Join us each month to discuss nonfiction literature that explores how powerful forces in society are negatively shaping our world and dystopian imaginings are becoming present-day realities.

April's book is Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by journalist Jonathan Blitzer. Copies of the book are available to borrow in print, ebook, and eAudiobook formats.

"Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here" explores the history of the current immigration crisis in the United States and the relationship between the USA and Central America. "As Jonathan Blitzer dramatizes with forensic, unprecedented reporting, this crisis is the result of decades of misguided policy and sweeping corruption. Brilliantly weaving the stories of Central Americans whose lives have been devastated by chronic political conflict and violence with those of American activists, government officials, and the politicians responsible for the country’s tragically tangled immigration policy, Blitzer reveals the full, layered picture of this vast and unremitting conflict. An 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 who determine their fate."

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