Latino writers in particular have eviscerated the book, including LA Times reporter Esmeralda Bermudez.ĮSMERALDA BERMUDEZ: This book has left a lot of white readers with a very fuzzy feeling - like, oh, my God - about immigrants. That voice you heard was part of a recorded interview we did with Jeanine Cummins last week, an interview that never aired because the criticism of her book started coming down hard, and the conversation about the novel had to change. MARTIN: And they run to the U.S.-Mexico border. JEANINE CUMMINS: And what follows is that Lydia and Luca, in this one moment, fall out of their middle-class lives and become people who have to run for their lives. She and her 8-year-old son are the only survivors. In the opening scene of the novel, her family is murdered by a drug cartel. MARTIN: "American Dirt" is the story of a Mexican woman named Lydia. OPRAH WINFREY: Oh, it is "American Dirt," "American Dirt," "American Dirt," by Jeanine Cummins. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "CBS THIS MORNING") It got high praise from writers including Sandra Cisneros and Julia Alvarez. After months of hype, her novel, "American Dirt," had finally been published. This week was supposed to be an exciting one for author Jeanine Cummins.
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