![]() ![]() Many have denounced the book or taken to social media and other platforms to appeal to readers to, as Myriam Gurba put it on Twitter, “Read something told in our own voices.” ![]() In part fueled by the book’s breakout success, bitter controversy has sprung up around “American Dirt.” An increasing number of Mexican-Americans and Latinx writers and readers have objected to what they see as Cummins’ appropriation and marketing of a story that isn’t hers to a mainstream (largely white) audience. ![]() Cummins, who in a 2015 essay identified as white and has Latina ancestry (one of her grandmothers is from Puerto Rico), wrote in a note at the end of the book that she wishes “someone slightly browner than me would write it.” The novel tells the plight of a young mother named Lydia and son Luca who make a thrilling escape from a murderous drug cartel and travel via train and on foot to finally arrive in America. ![]()
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