![]() ![]() On Tuesday, Oprah Winfrey said she had selected “American Dirt” for her sales-boosting book club. The result of that effort became one of this year’s buzziest literary titles, landing her a seven-figure contract, advance praise and a movie deal. “But then I thought, if you’re a person who has the capacity to be a bridge, why not be a bridge? So I began.” “I wished someone slightly browner than me would write it,” Cummins said in a note at the end of the novel, her fourth book. ![]() Photo: HEATHER STEN, STR / NYTĪt first, Jeanine Cummins was worried she had no business writing “American Dirt.” Born in the United States, of mixed Irish and Puerto Rican heritage, she feared she was unqualified to tell the story of migrants journeying through Mexico. ![]() Jeanine Cummins, author of “American Dirt,” which depicts a mother and son’s gut-wrenching journey. ![]()
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