Taking flight from Acapulco
Jan 19, 2020
2 minutes
by CATHERINE ROBERTSON
n her author’s note, Jeanine Cummins acknowledges her worry that as an American citizen, although of Puerto Rican descent, she had “no business” writing a book about Mexican migrants. And though it received the blessing of a prominent Mexican academic, the question. This book could be seen as a timely reminder of the real human cost of oppressive regimes on both sides of the US-Mexico border, or it could be seen as exploiting that drama for personal gain. Readers will need to decide for themselves the author’s integrity.
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