• Book Reviews

    American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

    What I appreciated the most is that the book did try to incorporate as many issues as it could, such as the life in a community controlled by cartels, the fear of writing and exposing high-ranking individuals, life of migrants, life of a single parent, and other experiences and stories encountered by our protagonist, Lydia. The character I liked the most was Lydia's son, Luca. Only because he reads books at a very young age, which is not very usual these days. But I cannot shake off the fact that that "young age" was eight and the wisdom he has was like not even of a teenager. I mean...???