Vivid, visceral, utterly compelling, AMERICAN DIRT is an unforgettable story of a mother and son's attempt to cross the US-Mexico border. Described as 'impossible to put down' (Saturday Review) and 'essential reading' (Tracy Chevalier), it is a story that will leave you utterly changed.
Yesterday, Lydia had a bookshop.
Yesterday, Lydia was married to a journalist.
Yesterday, she was with everyone she loved most in the world.
Today, her eight-year-old son Luca...
FEAR KEEPS THEM RUNNING. HOPE KEEPS THEM ALIVE.
Vivid, visceral, utterly compelling, AMERICAN DIRT is an unforgettable s...
An Instant New York Times #1 BestsellerAn Instant Sunday Times Top Ten BestsellerOver 750,000 copies sold globallyAn Oprah's Book Club PickA BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime
An Instant New York Times #1 BestsellerAn Instant Sunday Times Top Ten BestsellerOver 750,000 copies sold globallyAn Oprah's Book Club PickA BBC Radio...
What does it mean to call a place home? From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jeanine Cummins comes a deeply felt multigenerational family story
On her wedding day in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1968, Rafaela Acuña y Daubón has mild misgivings, but she marries Peter Brennan Jr. anyway in a blaze of romantic optimism. She has no way of knowing how dramatically her life will change when she uproots her young family to start over in the American Midwest, unleashing a fleet of disappointments.
In the 1980s, against the backdrop of her mother's...
What does it mean to call a place home? From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jeanine Cummins comes a deeply felt multi...