AMERICAN DIRT by Jeanine CUMMINS

AMERICAN DIRT by Jeanine CUMMINS - Translated from English (United States) by Françoise Adelstain & Christine Auché - Éditions 10/ 18 (92 avenue de France, Paris) - 2022 - 573 pages - Paperback. Librarian in Acapulco, Mexico, Lydia leads a quiet life with her journalist husband Sebastian and their family, despite the tensions caused in the city by the powerful drug cartels. Until the day when Sebastian, preparing to reveal in the press the identity of the leader of the main cartel, learns from Lydia that he is none other than Javier, a learned customer with whom she has become friends in her bookstore... The publication of his article, a few days later, upsets their destiny. Carried by an electric writing, American Dirt tells the epic of these women and men who have only a fierce will to advance towards the American border. Hymn to the dreams of thousands of migrants who risk their lives every day, American Dirt is also the novel of a mother's love and her son who, in the heart of tragic situations, never lose hope. A novel necessary in our troubled times.