It’s good if you have a personal connection. The author's husband immigrated here from.Ireland."Īnd that’s where we are these days. Jeanine Cummins’s novel about migrants fleeing violence is a hit with booksellers, but critics have called it trauma porn that exploits another country’s pain. "The marketing copy was all bull***,” El Akkad later tweeted. The history of TV, movies, and books is, of course, loaded with such efforts that are indeed deeply offensive.īut when we move from criticizing badly executed art and focus instead on the evil intentions of the culturally appropriating artist, we make a terrible series of errors with far-reaching consequences.Ĭonsider Omar El Akkad, an author who offered advance praise for American Dirt, presumably (and very stupidly) based on the fact that Cummins’ publisher publicized the fact that her husband had been an undocumented immigrant. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. It also used to be seen as at least modestly admirable for folks to attempt to empathize with folks who are different from them. Jeanine Cummins's American Dirt, the 1 New York Times bestseller and Oprah Book Club pick that has sold over three million copies, is finally available in paperback.
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