Publisher cancels ‘American Dirt’ book tour: ‘Serious mistakes’ and ‘concerns about safety’
1/30/20
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from The Washington Post,
1/30/20:
That prompted a drawn-out conversation about several weighty topics: on who should be able write what, and how they should write it…
When she set out to write “American Dirt,” Jeanine Cummins wanted to start a conversation about migrants at the border.
Instead, the writer’s fourth book sparked a very different debate — on equally fraught questions of identity, authorship and cultural appropriation — as an ever-growing chorus of critics condemns the novel for its portrayal of migrants fleeing gang violence.
Some of the backlash got so heated, the book’s publisher said Wednesday, that it canceled the 13 events left on Cummins’s national book tour.
Citing “concerns about safety,
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