Tempest Bradford, writer and instructor of the "Writing The Other " writing workshop. We talk about it with David Bowles, Mexican American translator, poet and author Constance Grady, culture writer and book critic at Vox Lorraine Devon Wilke, author of "The Alchemy of Noise" and K. Who gets to tell the story?Ĭan online reaction to literature act as a form of censorship? Or is it a valuable check, especially on a publishing industry that can't seem to get questions of representation and diversity right in its quest to sell books? They said she fetishized their struggle, and even fetishized peoples' skin color.Īnd that criticism stokes the debate on who the publishing world includes, and who it consistently leaves out. American Dirt is the story of Lydia and her 8-year-old son, Luca, who are fleeing from their home in Acapulco, Mexico, after a drug cartel kills more than a dozen of their family members. And some Latinx writers and readers objected to the way author Jeanine Cummins treated the migrant experience. "American Dirt" follows the fictional account of a Mexican mother and her young son as they flee violence and migrate north to America. The novel "American Dirt" hit bookstores in a way most authors can only dream of: a seven-figure bidding war for the publishing rights, a movie option prior to publication, and a selection for Oprah's book club.īut then, all that praise was punctured. An aerial view of the U.S.-Mexico border, with Mexico on the right.
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