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Examining The Arguments Over Jeanine Cummins’s ‘American Dirt’

WORDS Posted: January 24, 2020 9:02 am

The author got a seven-figure advance, the first print run is half a million copies, the book jacket features gushing blurbs by famous writers, and the book got loads of coverage in The New York Times. But then the Twitterverse came after it, observers called out plot points that strain credibility, and even Cummins herself said, “I don’t know if I’m the right person to tell this story.” And then Oprah got involved. – Vox

WORDS Published: 01.22.20

Read the story in Vox Published: 01.22.20

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