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Podcast: The Bay
Episode: What ‘American Dirt’ Gets Wrong
Description: Many Latinx writers, including here in the Bay Area, have expressed frustration with American Dirt, a new book by Jeanine Cummins that has been called the next great American novel. Oprah even selected it for her book club.
But it's also been criticized for an inaccurate, stereotypical depiction of migrants who are trying to cross the US-Mexico border.
"If it had been published and kind of billed as, 'This is our romanticized view of the border and its just for entertainment,' there's room for that on the shelves for whoever wants to read that story,"...