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American Dirt – CANCELLED
January 31, 2020 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
FreePlease note this event (and the remainder of Cummins’s tour) has been cancelled by her publisher.
Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. And then one day a man enters the shop to browse and comes up to the register with four books he would like to buy – two of them her favorites. And, unbeknownst to Lydia, he is the jefe of the newest drug cartel that has gruesomely taken over the city. When Lydia’s husband’s tell-all profile of him is published, none of their lives will ever be the same. Jeanine Cummins’s American Dirt (Flatiron) is a rare exploration into the inner hearts of people willing to sacrifice everything for a glimmer of hope.