Here, a complete list of Jeanine Cummins' books to read next. If you're looking to learn more about Cummins' work, prior to American Dirt, Cummins wrote two novels and a memoir about the crime that changed her family forever. So begins a 1,000-mile journey to the United States, carried out primarily on foot and on the tops of fast-moving trains, one that's already starting conversation amongst readers about identity and authorship when it comes to storytelling. After their entire family is murdered by a drug cartel in a devastating opening sequence, Lydia Pérez and her 8-year-old son, Luca, flee their hometown of Acapulco, fearing they could be next. I wanted to like American Dirt, Jeanine Cummins’ much-debated novel about a young mother and her son who, after an act of brutality, find themselves in a desperate attempt to escape the clutches. Like The Water Dancer, American Dirt is the story of a strenuous, often dangerous voyage northwards, this time in a contemporary setting. Oprah Winfrey and Jeanine Cummins are finally facing. Praise for The Crooked Branch Even before you come to care about Jeanine Cummins’ rich and intricately drawn characters, before you become enmeshed in her skillfully tangled plot lines about the hard and wondrous task of mothering children in times both catastrophic and ordinary. American Dirt follows Ta-Nehisi Coates' epic The Water Dancer and Elizabeth Strout's Olive, Again, as Lady O's most recent book club selections. Critics Confront Oprah Winfrey And Jeanine Cummings Over American Dirt In New Episode Of Apple TV+ Show. Meet American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, a propulsive and wrenching novel infused with so much adrenaline that 383 pages will pass in no time. Jeanine Cummins’s immoderately hyped third novel, American Dirt, opens with blood-sodden terror as The Owl takes revenge: a machine-gun slaughter at a family barbecue. The first Oprah's book club pick of 2020 has officially arrived.

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