IN CONVERSATION WITH Jeanine Cummins
Feb 06, 2020
4 minutes
WORDS: ZOE WEST.
‘I realised what things were important to me, and this book felt like one of them’
With film rights already snapped up, and Stephen King calling it extraordinary, Jeanine Cummins’ American Dirt is a stunning story about Lydia and her nine-year-old son Luca’s terrifying journey as they flee cartel violence and attempt to cross the border from Mexico into the US. Jeanine lives in New York with her husband and two daughters.
There are so many reasons I wrote this book about a mother and son who find themselves on the run.
Firstly, I’m married to an immigrant, and although he’s Irish – and his experience
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