“The Route,” a work of narrative nonfiction, will take a look at one of the most consequential issues of our time — the mass movement of people around the globe in the face of climate change, civil unrest, and more, with tens of thousands of migrants from Africa and Asia attempting the same treacherous route through South America and Central America each year to reach the U.S.-Mexico border in hopes of gaining entry to America. To show the complicated, powerful set of dynamics that spur people from all corners of the world to head for the United States, but also stand in their way of making it, the book will follow a set of migrants along the new migrant underground. This deadly gauntlet for refugees from around the world stretches from Brazil to the U.S.-Mexico border, carved out by the fixers and officials cashing in on a billion-dollar black market, and held together by the thread of the American dream.

Crown Publishing, a Penguin Random House imprint, will publish “The Route” in 2025.