Format:
Book
Author:
Cummins, Jeanine, author
Title:
American dirt / Jeanine Cummins.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Flatiron Books, 2020.
New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, [2022].
©2020
Description:
386 pages ; 24 cm
380 pages ; 21 cm
Summary:
Lydia Quixano Perez runs a bookstore in Acapulco. When Lydia's husband's tell-all profile of Javier, the jefe of the newest drug cartel that has gruesomely taken over the city, 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. Instantly transformed into migrants, Lydia and Luca ride la bestia-trains that make their way north toward the United States, which is the only place Javier's reach doesn't extend.
Subjects:
Drug traffic -- Mexico -- Fiction
Booksellers and bookselling -- Fiction
Women booksellers -- Fiction
Journalists -- Fiction
Life change events -- Fiction
Organized crime -- Fiction
Mothers and sons -- Fiction
Railroad travel -- Fiction
Immigrants -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Fiction
Mexican-American Border Region -- Fiction
Acapulco (Mexico) -- Fiction
Genre:
Thrillers (Fiction)
LCCN:
2019036052
ISBN:
9781250209764 (hardcover)
9781250754080 (softcover)
9781250209788 (softcover)
System Availability:
99
Current Holds:
2
# Local items:
99
Control Number:
1778743
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
84
# System items in:
84