It's always good to talk things out and that is the aim of this week's show. Backed by a hefty marketing budget and a reported first. We also introduce you to future contributor Isabella Gomez Sarmiento, a current NPR Kroc fellow, who joined the conversation. Acquired for seven figures in a competitive auction in May 2018, American Dirt was a bookseller favorite at last year’s BookExpo. I asked Alt.Latino contributors Marisa Arbona-Ruiz and Catalina Maria Johnson to weigh in on the discussion from an arts and culture perspective. Our colleagues at NPR's Latino USA probably have the most extensive and insightful exploration of the facts surrounding the issue. The back-and-forth has dominated social media for the last week and a half. DIRT: The Last Great American Sport Season 1 Episodes. The controversy surrounding the publication of American Dirt, a novel by Jeanine Cummins, has resulted in a firestorm: detractors claim the author lacks the credibility to write a story about Mexican immigrants (Cummins claims Puerto Rican heritage by way of a grandmother) those whom support her work say she has written a book with well-researched, real-to-life depictions of those who cross the U.S. When does a depiction of culture, history and identity become inauthentic? And according to whom? The response to American Dirt hasn't kept the novel off bookshelves, but has sparked a conversation. American Dirt tells the story of a Mexican woman and her 8-year-old son who steal a ride La Bestia, an infamous freight train, to cross the border and flee the drug lord who has murdered her.
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