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Jan 19, 2020 · By Jeanine Cummins. A few pages into reading Jeanine Cummins’s third novel, “ American Dirt ,” I found myself so terrified that I had to pace my house. The novel opens into a tense and vivid...
New York Times book critic Parul Sehgal said that the “rapturous and demented praise” the book has received in the press might be owed in part to the fact that “tortured sentences aside,...
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Sep 14, 2023 · Polly Rosenwaike’s headline says it all—she found American Dirtto be "a thrilling adrenaline rush" with a chaser of the "Latin American migrant experience." Her review focuses exclusively on the story of the protagonist, Lydia, a middle-class woman trying to protect herself and her young son during a desperate escape from the local drug cartel.
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American Dirtfollows the journey of a mother and son fleeing Mexico for America after their entire family is murdered on the orders of a local cartel kingpin. Before the slaughter, Lydia Quixano Pérez is a bookseller in Acapulco, mother to Luca and wife to journalist Sebastián. It is Sebastián’s exposé on the kingpin, who also happens to be a frequ...
At first glance, the criticism of American Dirtreads as the increasingly pro forma conversation about who’s allowed to tell whose story. On one side are Mexican and Mexican American writers asking why Cummins felt the need to tell this story, other than to individuate a “faceless brown mass” that she’s not a part of—simultaneously raising the quest...
But the pan with the biggest reach came this weekend when Parul Sehgal wrote for the New York Times’ daily Books of the Times section that “this peculiar book flounders and fails.” Two days later, the Times Book Review published Lauren Groff’s conflicted review, which makes the case that the novel “was written with good intentions, and like all dee...
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Blurbed to Death. How one of publishing’s most hyped books became its biggest horror story — and still ended up a best seller. By Lila Shapiro, a features writer for New York Magazine....
Jan 22, 2020 · New York Times book critic Parul Sehgal questioned the author's decision to describe skin tones as "berry brown" and "tan as childhood," and then in one scene, as a woman cries into the shoulder of her sister, the "soft brown curve" of skin, as if to remind the reader that these characters are — in case they've forgotten — brown.
Feb 3, 2020 · Opinion Books. This article is more than 4 years old. American Dirt’s problem is bad writing, not cultural appropriation. Nesrine Malik. Well-meaning critics of a novel about a mother and son...
