It saw events and its tour canceled, it was threatened – as were the moderators and the bookstores. But in late 2019, a review where she was accused of cultural appropriation and of stigmatizing Mexicans gained traction and the consequences were felt. In 2018, when he published the book, it received good reviews. Then she went to the Mexican border, where she visited shelters and worked as a volunteer serving breakfasts. Jeanine Cummins began doing research for this book in 2013, reading everything she could find, watching all the documentaries at her disposal. Published in 2018, it is already considered a modern classic in American literature and compared to Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath.īut it is not only for this that the work and its author are known. The session is open to the public, and admission is free.Īmerican Dirt tells the story of Lydia and Luca, the only survivors of their family’s massacre at the hands of drug traffickers, as they flee Mexico, where every minute counts and every exchange of glances is steeped in danger. Meet the Author – Encounter with American Writers returns on March 23, at 6:30pm, with the writer Jeanine Cummins, author of a memoir and three novels, including American Dirt (Edições ASA), one of the most controversial books of the last decades.
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