Host Maria Hinojosa interviews Myriam Gurba, a Chicana feminist author who was the first to offer harsh criticism of the book. Because it’s an NPR radio platform, listeners hear not only words of the interviewees, but also their tone. LatinoUSA ran one of my favorite features about the book.
According to Oprah, who selected the book as her January book club pick: “From the first sentence, I was in.” Here is the opening line of American Dirt: “One of the very first bullets comes in through the open window above the toilet where Luca is standing.” Any thriller writer can recognize our genre: open with one of the main characters in a vulnerable location and imminent danger.
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