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In her beautiful, suspenseful and timely new novel ``American Dirt,’’ Jeanine Cummins succeeds in taking migration — one of the central issues of our time — and bringing it down to human size.
American Dirt is a 2020 novel by American author Jeanine Cummins, published by Flatiron Books.The book is about a Mexican bookseller who is forced to flee as an undocumented immigrant to the United States, along with her son, after her journalist husband exposes a local drug kingpin.
Jeanine Cummins (born December 6, 1974) [1] [failed verification] is an American author of Irish and Puerto Rican heritage. [2] [3] She has written four books: a memoir titled A Rip in Heaven and three novels, The Outside Boy, The Crooked Branch, and American Dirt. [4] American Dirt was a notable success, selling over 3 million copies in 37 ...
Why American Dirt, Oprah Winfrey's new book club pick, is controversial
Myriam Gurba Serrano (born May 14, 1977) is an American author, editor, and visual artist. She is best known for her true crime memoir, Mean, and her review, in Tropics of Meta, of American Dirt. Her book Creep was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for criticism [1] and won the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction. [2]
When Oprah Winfrey endorsed the novel “American Dirt” for her book club last month, many Latinos took to social media to decry the selection for its stereotypes and caricatures. Across the U.S ...
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Following Gurba's review of American Dirt, publications such as The New York Times and The New Yorker, asked Gurba to write further editorials on Cummins' novel. Gurba has described how these large media outlets, "wanted me to continue doing this anti-American Dirt song and dance for clicks and it got stale very quickly. The offers were so ...