It's always good to talk things out and that is the aim of this week's show. We also introduce you to future contributor Isabella Gomez Sarmiento, a current NPR Kroc fellow, who joined the conversation. I asked Alt.Latino contributors Marisa Arbona-Ruiz and Catalina Maria Johnson to weigh in on the discussion from an arts and culture perspective. Our colleagues at NPR's Latino USA probably have the most extensive and insightful exploration of the facts surrounding the issue. The back-and-forth has dominated social media for the last week and a half. The controversial, cross-genre novel combines elements of a commercial thriller, literary fiction, suspense, and romance. Cummins ( The Crooked Branch, 2013, etc.) opens this propulsive novel with a massacre. borderand a testimony to the courage it takes to do it. 21, 2020 This terrifying and tender novel is a blunt answer to the question of why immigrants from Latin America cross the U.S. This guide refers to the first US edition. AMERICAN DIRT by Jeanine Cummins RELEASE DATE: Jan. The controversy surrounding the publication of American Dirt, a novel by Jeanine Cummins, has resulted in a firestorm: detractors claim the author lacks the credibility to write a story about Mexican immigrants (Cummins claims Puerto Rican heritage by way of a grandmother) those whom support her work say she has written a book with well-researched, real-to-life depictions of those who cross the U.S. American Dirt is a work of fiction by Jeanine Cummins published in 2020 by MacMillan Press. Throughout the novel, Lydia thinks back on how, when she was living a middle-class existence, she viewed migrants with pity: All her life she’s pitied those poor people. When does a depiction of culture, history and identity become inauthentic? And according to whom? The response to American Dirt hasn't kept the novel off bookshelves, but has sparked a conversation.

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