American Dirt

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Call Number: BOCD Fiction, Adult BOCD / Fiction / General / Cummins, Jeanine
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Westgate Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	BOCD Fiction	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult A/V 4-week checkout	Adult BOCD / Fiction / General / Cummins, Jeanine	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult A/V 4-week checkout	Adult BOCD / Fiction / General / Cummins, Jeanine	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Compact discs.
Read by Yareli Arizmendi ; author's note read by the author.
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 cracks are beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, reasonably comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. 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. Javier is erudite. He is charming. 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 Javier is published, none of their lives will ever be the same. Forced to flee, Lydia and eight-year-old Luca soon find themselves miles and worlds away from their comfortable middle-class existence.

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Interesting submitted by cldaniels on July 4, 2020, 1:29pm This book offers the reader a perspective of being a migrant trying to flee the violence of Mexico. It has some bits of thrill as Lydia tries to outsmart a cartel, yet often moves slow, as I expect the travel of a migrant might be. It has multiple narrators, which is sometimes hard to follow in the audio version, but overall a good story.