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“Extraordinary.”-Stephen Ruler

“This book isn’t basically the great American novel; it’s the great novel of las Americas. It’s the great world novel! This is the international tale of our times. Masterful.”-Sandra Cisneros

También de este lado hay sueños. On this side too, you will find dreams.

Lydia Quixano Pérez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She operates a bookstore. She has a child, Luca, the love of her existence, and an excellent spouse about American Dirt (Oprah’s Publication Club): A Novel who’s a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco due to the medication cartels, her existence is, by and large, fairly comfortable.

Even though she understands they’ll hardly ever sell, Lydia stocks a few of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then 1 day a man enters the store to browse and comes up to the register with a few books he would prefer to buy-two of them her favorites. Javier can be erudite. He is charming. And, unbeknownst to Lydia, he is the jefe of the newest drug cartel which has gruesomely taken over the city. When Lydia’s husband’s tell-all profile of Javier is published, none of their lives will ever be the same.

Forced to flee, Lydia and eight-year-old Luca soon find themselves miles and worlds from their comfortable middle-class existence. Instantly transformed into migrants, Lydia and Luca trip la bestia-trains that produce their method north toward the United States, which is the only place Javier’s reach doesn’t lengthen. As they join the countless people trying to reach un norte, Lydia quickly sees that everyone is running from something. But what exactly are they working to?

American Dirt will leave listeners utterly changed. It is a literary achievement filled up with poignancy, dilemma, and humanity. It really is one of the most important books for our instances.

Currently being hailed simply because ‘a Grapes of Wrath for our times’ and ‘a new American classic,’ Jeanine Cummins’s American Dirt is a rare exploration in to the inner hearts of people ready to sacrifice everything for the glimmer of hope.

‘Narrator Yareli Arizmendi illuminates the mankind and personality of Latin American migrants as they flee toward refuge in the North..The account of Lydia and Luca’s travails, including terrifying rides atop Mexico’s freight trains, is completely compelling. Nonetheless it is Arizmendi’s voicing of Lydia, therefore full of brutal tenderness, that will stick with listeners after the story’s close.’-AudioFile Magazine