BOOK CLUB (November) - American Dirt

American Dirt, by Jeanine Cummins

The author, Jeanine Cummins, is a white girl from New York. In light of this, there is controversy over the book's popularity (#1 New York Times bestseller), such as whether someone with actual lived experience fleeing a Mexican cartel would have more legitimacy to author such a work. Your opinion on this and other well-researched yet fictionalized topics covered in the book are welcomed!

What one reader says about this book:
"I found it to be riveting, informative, suspenseful, heartbreaking and hard to put down . It’s 400 pages and I read it in two days. It’s the harrowing journey of migrants from Mexico, running for their lives, not to find a better life with more opportunity, but running to save their lives. There’s so much out there on this, you can easily find enough on the plot and characters, so I’m not going to talk about those here. I will say that the grief, the fear, the uncertainty, what people will do to save their loved ones and themselves was impactful. I found the last third of the book especially gripping."