Plot: Lydia is a Mexican woman living in Acapulco with her husband and son. She runs a bookstore and her husband works as a journalist sounding the alarm on the growing danger of cartels. An article about a new leader of a cartel results in a snowball effect that leaves 16 members of Lydia’s family dead, brutally murdered, and Lydia and her son Luca alive only by sheer luck. So they pack a bag, and they run. And run. And run. This is a hard […]
“Lydia is dubious at first, but if you can’t trust a librarian, who can you trust?”
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
