![]() ![]() In her portrayal of Lydia and Luca, a mother and son forced to leave their Mexican home, Jeanine Cummins has given face to migrants everywhere who flee violence and near-certain death in search of only one thing: a chance at life. ![]() Gritty yet sensitive, realistic yet hopeful, grand and granular, American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins is a Grapes of Wrath for our times." - Don Winslow, author of the New York Times bestseller The Border " American Dirt is an urgent, blistering, unforgettable book. It's marvelous." - Stephen King "From its heart-stopping first sentence to its heart-shattering last, Cummins's story of immigrants is just what we need now. This book will be an important voice in the discussion about immigration and los migrantes it certainly puts the lie to the idea that we are being besieged by 'bad hombres.' On a micro scale-the story scale, where I like to live-it's one hell of a novel about a good woman on the run with her beautiful boy. The prose is immaculate, and the story never lets up. I defy anyone to read the first seven pages of this book and not finish it. " - Entertainment Weekly " American Dirt is an extraordinary piece of work, a perfect balancing act with terror on one side and love on the other. ![]()
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