27 January 2020
Why is literary Twitter piling on Jeanine Cummins' American Dirt, once one of the most highly anticipated books of the year? After an intense bidding war among nine houses that ended in a reported seven-figure deal, the novel landed on both the New York Times' and LitHub's 2020-in-reading lists. It's in stores Tuesday, accompanied by praise from heavyweights like Stephen King, Sandra Cisneros, and Don Winslow-the last of whom compared the migrant drama novel to John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. A film adaptation is already in the works by the same company that produced Clint Eastwood's The Mule.
