The publisher behind a controversial book chosen for Oprah Winfrey's book club has canceled the author’s book tour due to concerns for her safety. The author at the center of the controversy is Jeanine Cummins, who wrote the book “American Dirt,” a story about a Mexican mother named Lydia fleeing
The publisher behind a controversial book chosen for Oprah Winfrey's book club has canceled the author’s book tour due to concerns for her safety.
“This book, ‘American Dirt,’ just gutted me and I didn’t just read this book, I inhabited this book,” Winfrey said in an Instagram post announcing her pick. Esmeralda Bermudez, a writer for the Los Angeles Times, pointed out what she said were the flawed characteristics of the book’s heroine, Lydia. The author says her father is Puerto Rican, that she identifies as Latina and spent five years working on the book, at times on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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