valeria luiselli, award-winning mexican american writer. latest book is "lost children archive." it was just long list support for2019 women's prize fiction. thank you so much for being with us. have future national women's day. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! p.o. box 693 new york, new york 10013. [captioning made possible by democracy now!] >> that's madness. >> maybe so, but it's not half as mad as the idea that brought us to this point. >> is there such a thing as a

valeria luiselli, award-winning mexican american writer. latest book is "lost children archive." it was just long list support for2019 women's prize fiction. thank you so much for being with us. have future national women's day. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! p.o. box 693 new york, new york 10013. [captioning made possible by democracy now!] 7 c16 c13 c1 al jazeera. >> hello. you're watching the newshour live from doha. coming up ininnthe nextt 60 minutetes! overflowowing the streets of th capital and the cities across biggest in decades. the pain of no power. we talk to a cancer patient caught in venezuela's day-long iraq struggling with the stigma of i isil. the splashdown ththat mmans

valeria luiselli first wro of migration in her 2017 nonfiction book "tell me how it ends" ba hd r workan interpreterc foldren seeking to remain in the u.s. now she goes written a fictional account in the novel "lost children ars hive." thisr first novel written in english. born ine mexico, shw lives in new york. welcome to you. >> thank you very much. >> brown: you've done an interesting thing, written two books, one i nonfiction, one fiction about one subject. first, the subject, why did itgr you? >> it was the first summer or what we can now call this era of the central american diaspora which is the summer where t arrival of central american children to the u.s. who were seeking asylum surged, and driving down the arizona and hearing the news with my family, i couldn't stop thinking about the fact that there were, at that moment, 60,000 children alone at the bordewaiting for permission to reunite with faly members,eking asylum, and hoping not to be deported back. >> brown: well, so, when it'sh that close and the news, and here we are in a news program, we covered theset issues, and