`American Dirt´ Latino backlash part of long publishing war
(WorldNews Mexico)

During a trip to Mexico to visit family, writer Myriam Gurba took `American Dirt,` a novel about immigration and cartel violence that was being touted as one of the biggest U.S. releases of 2020. The writer was of mostly white descent, and Gurba felt the book didn’t ring true. `I was reading the book in El Parque de la Revolución in Guadalajara. I’d look up and see real Mexico,` said Gurba, of Long Beach, California. `I’d look down back at the book and see fake Mexico.` Since before its publication, “American Dirt,â€� by Jeanine Cummins, garnered suspicion and criticism from many Latino writers and activists at the same time - and partly because - it was being...