![]() ![]() ![]() Toxic heteroromanticism gives the sludge an arc and because the white gaze taints her prose, Cummins positions the United States of America as a magnetic sanctuary, a beacon toward which the story’s chronology chugs. Cummins plops overly-ripe Mexican stereotypes, among them the Latin lover, the suffering mother, and the stoic manchild, into her wannabe realist prose. Jeanine Cummins’ narco-novel, American Dirt, is a literary licuado (smoothie) that tastes like its title. ![]() However, as the Chicana feminist writer Myriam Gurba wrote in her review: With a seven-figure advance, an Oprah’s book club selection, a massive advertising investment from the publisher, and positive reviews from Stephen King, John Grisham, and Ann Patchett, American Dirt seemed a book of destiny: a bestseller with literary street cred. In one of the biggest literary controversies of 2020, Jeanine Cummins’ American Dirt highlighted narcoculture, violence, and immigration in Mexico but also opened up an intense conversation about who has a right to be a voice on a particular subject. ![]()
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