American Dirt

• Author : Jeanine Cummins
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2020
• ISBN : 1250754089

OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK "Extraordinary." --Stephen King "This book is not simply the great American novel; it's the great novel oflas Americas. It's the great world novel! This is the international story of our times. Masterful." --Sandra Cisneros También de este lado hay sueños.On this side, too, there are dreams. Lydia Quixano Pérez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a

• Author : Jeanine Cummins
• Publisher : Flatiron Books
• Release Date : 2020-01-21
• ISBN : 1250209765

También de este lado hay sueños. On this side too, there are dreams. Already being hailed as "a Grapes of Wrath for our times" and "a new American classic", American Dirt is a rare exploration into the inner hearts of people willing to sacrifice everything for a glimmer of hope. If it’s only a better life you seek, seek it elsewhere...This path is only for people who have no choice, no other option, only violence and

• Author : Jeanine Cummins
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2020
• ISBN : 1250772400

"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 there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly 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

• Author : Jeanine Cummins
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release Date : 2013-03-05
• ISBN : 9781101615072

From the national bestselling author of American Dirt and A Rip in Heaven comes the deeply moving story of two mothers from two very different times. After the birth of her daughter Emma, the usually resilient Majella finds herself feeling isolated and exhausted. Then, at her childhood home in Queens, Majella discovers the diary of her maternal ancestor Ginny—and is shocked to read a story of murder in her family history. With the famine upon her, Ginny Doyle fled

• Author : Jeanine Cummins
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release Date : 2004-06-01
• ISBN : 9781440627910

The acclaimed author of American Dirt reveals the devastating effects of a shocking tragedy in this landmark true crime book—the first ever to look intimately at the experiences of both the victims and their families. A Rip in Heaven is Jeanine Cummins’ story of a night in April, 1991, when her two cousins Julie and Robin Kerry, and her brother, Tom, were assaulted on the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge, which spans the Mississippi River just outside of St. Louis.

• Author : Jeanine Cummins
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release Date : 2010-06-01
• ISBN : 9781101429679

A poignant, coming of age novel about an Irish gypsy boy’s childhood in the 1950’s from the national bestselling author of A Rip in Heaven and American Dirt. Ireland, 1959: Young Christopher Hurley is a tinker, a Pavee gypsy, who roams with his father and extended family from town to town, carrying all their worldly possessions in their wagons. Christy carries with him a burden of guilt as well, haunted by the story of his mother’s death in childbirth.

• Author : Synopsis Reads
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2020-02-04
• ISBN : 9798609023971

Note: This is a summary of Jeanine Cummins's NYT's bestseller, American Dirt. Current Rave reviews for American Dirt: "Extraordinary." - Stephen King "It's a heart-wrenching page-turner, and you won't be able to put it down."--Oprah Winfrey About the author: Jeanine Cummins is the author of four books: the bestselling memoir A Rip in Heaven, and the novels The Outside Boy, The Crooked Branch, and American Dirt. She lives in New York with her husband and two children. Why read

• Author : Judith Viorst,Ray Cruz
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release Date : 2009-09-22
• ISBN : 9781416985952

On a day when everything goes wrong for him, Alexander is consoled by the thought that other people have bad days too.

• Author : John Hersey
• Publisher : Vintage
• Release Date : 2020-06-23
• ISBN : 9780593082362

"A new edition with a final chapter written forty years after the explosion."

• Author : Jeanine Cummins
• Publisher : Flatiron Books
• Release Date : 2019-08-02
• ISBN : 9781250751089

Download a free excerpt from Jeanine Cummins's American Dirt! También de este lado hay sueños. On this side too, there are dreams. Already being hailed as "a Grapes of Wrath for our times" and "a new American classic", American Dirt is a rare exploration into the inner hearts of people willing to sacrifice everything for a glimmer of hope. If it’s only a better life you seek, seek it elsewhere...This path is only for people who

• Author : Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
• Publisher : HarperCollins
• Release Date : 2020-01-28
• ISBN : 9780062825605

An NPR Best Book of the Year A 2020 International Latino Book Award Finalist An Entertainment Weekly, The Millions, and LitHub Most Anticipated Book of the Year This unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in the United States recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man’s attempt to build a future in a nation that denies his existence. “You were not a ghost even though an

• Author : Trevor Noah
• Publisher : One World
• Release Date : 2016-11-15
• ISBN : 9780399588181

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! A “brilliant” (Lupita Nyong’o, Time), “poignant” (Entertainment Weekly), “soul-nourishing” (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid “Noah’s childhood stories are told with all the hilarity and intellect that characterizes his comedy, while illuminating a dark and brutal period in South Africa’s history that must never be forgotten.”—Esquire Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor and an NAACP Image Award • Named

• Author : Julissa Arce
• Publisher : Center Street
• Release Date : 2016-09-13
• ISBN : 9781455540259

A National Bestseller! What does an undocumented immigrant look like? What kind of family must she come from? How could she get into this country? What is the true price she must pay to remain in the United States? JULISSA ARCE knows firsthand that the most common, preconceived answers to those questions are sometimes far too simple-and often just plain wrong. On the surface, Arce's story reads like a how-to manual for achieving the American dream: growing up in an

• Author : Mike Rowe
• Publisher : Gallery Books
• Release Date : 2019-10-15
• ISBN : 9781982130855

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Executive producer and host Mike Rowe presents a delightfully entertaining, seriously fascinating collection of his favorite episodes from America’s #1 short-form podcast, The Way I Heard It, along with a host of personal memories, ruminations, and insights. It’s a captivating must-read. The Way I Heard It presents thirty-five mysteries “for the curious mind with a short attention span.” Every one is a trueish tale about someone you know, filled with facts that you don’t.

• Author : Julia Alvarez
• Publisher : Algonquin Books
• Release Date : 2013-03-19
• ISBN : 9781616202743

In a story that travels beyond borders and between families, acclaimed Dominican novelist and poet Julia Alvarez reflects on the joys and burdens of love—for her parents, for her husband, and for a young Haitian boy known as Piti. In this intimate true account of a promise kept, Alvarez takes us on a journey into experiences that challenge our way of thinking about history and how it can be reimagined when people from two countries—traditional enemies and strangers—