“I think you're seeing a dam breaking because people have been frustrated for a long, long time at the lack of institutional support for our stories and the American Dirt story is a kind of perfect catalyst for that.” jpbrammer on Oprah's book club pick:
. “I think that the bigger issue here to me is that the attention the book is receiving sends the message that your stories are only valid and important and are only able to be humanized when they're told through this vantage point.”
Cummins herself seems to have acknowledged that she may not have been the best person to write this particular story. According to, she wrote in the afterword of the novel, "I was worried that, as a nonimmigrant and non-Mexican, I had no business writing a book set almost entirely in Mexico, set entirely among immigrants. I wished someone slightly browner than me would write it."
But Arce points out, “people who are actually brown have actually told their stories and none of those books, including mine, have received the kind of praise and attention or money that her book has received.” Arce, who read an early advance copy of the book, says what stood out to her was the “lack of authenticity and her lack of understanding of the culture or being in the culture.”
“I know Oprah said the first sentence got her, and I'm reading the first page, and the inaccuracy, especially from a cultural standpoint, is so terrible,” Arce says. “To give you one example, a quinceañera, it's something that is a huge thing in Mexican culture. Here [in the book], you have only 16 people at a quinceañera and they're listening to the radio — that would never happen.
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