Why American Dirt, a novel about Mexican immigration, sparked such a controversy - Vox

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A non-Mexican author wrote a book about Mexican migrants. Critics are calling it trauma porn.

Culture The controversy over the new immigration novel American Dirt, explained A non-Mexican author wrote a book about Mexican migrants. Critics are calling it trauma porn. by Constance Grady Updated Jan 30, 2020, 4:57 PM UTC On January 21, Oprah Winfrey announced that Jeanine Cummins’s novel American Dirt would be her next book club pick. Winfrey is pictured next to Cummins, with Gayle King, Anthony Mason, and Tony Dokoupil on CBS’s This Morning . CBS via Getty Images Constance Grady is a senior correspondent on the Culture team for Vox, where since 2016 she has covered books, publishing, ge

Why American Dirt, a novel about Mexican immigration, sparked such a controversy - Vox

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