Lydia and Luca must flee the world they know best in order to escape the reverberations of the cartel’s wrath toward Sebastián, who continued to write about Los Jardineros despite multiple warnings.
Thus begins the terror-driven journey at the heart of Cummins’s book. The message: TODA MI FAMILIA ESTÁ MUERTA POR MI CULPA. After unleashing a torrent of bullets-during a quinceañera barbecue, no less-the men of Los Jardineros place a cardboard sign on the body of Lydia’s journalist husband, Sebastián. While the Mexican bookseller Lydia (most often referred to as Mami) escorts her 8-year-old son, Luca, to the restroom in his grandmother’s Acapulco home, members of a local cartel kill every other member of their family. American Dirt, the much discussed new novel from the author Jeanine Cummins, opens with a perfunctory slaughter.
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