I didn’t know if I had the right to tell the story, I still. “I resisted it for four years, because I just didn’t want to stick my neck out. However, she had no intention of writing a book about Mexico.
I felt very much connected to both parts of his heritage.” I’m also a person who has lived in many places.” She recalls her father coming to her school in the US on St Patrick’s Day dressed in typical Puerto Rican clothes to sing Clancy Brothers songs at school assembly. I’m married to an Irishman who was an undocumented immigrant for many years.
“I come from a family, like most people in, with mixed ethnicity. It was, Cummins says, “quite natural” that she would write about immigration. Much of their dangerous journey to the US is made on the roofs of Le Bestia, the infamous Mexican freight train on which half a million migrants travel every year, often risking their lives jumping aboard while the train is moving. It is the story of an Acapulco bookshop owner and her son on a desperate journey to escape Mexico after their family is killed by a drug cartel.
It sold for a seven-figure sum after a nine-way bidding war and a movie is already in the works.Īnd yet, there are already critics saying that she had no business writing this book at all. Jeanine Cummins’ new novel American Dirt is on every “must read” list for 2020, has been described as “The Grapes of Wrath for our times”, and praised by John Grisham, Stephen King and Sandra Cisneros.
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