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Book review: Love and fear drive migrants in “American Dirt”

By Julia Ruin In her beautiful, suspenseful and timely new novel “American Dirt,” Jeanine Cummins succeeds in taking migration — one of the central issues of our time — and bringing it down to human size. The story of one Mexican mother and her young son reminds us that migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border (and everywhere) are individuals driven by their own unique and desperate stories. Cummins tells of Lydia, a bookstore owner in Acapulco, and her smart, sensitive 8-year-old, Luca.

 

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