![]() ![]() Shop Now on Apple Books Shop Now on Amazon "But this story changed the way I see what it means to be a migrant in a whole new way." “Like so many of us, I’ve read newspaper articles and watched television news stories and seen movies about the plight of families looking for a better life," Oprah explains of her latest selection. Their odyssey-one that involves life-threatening obstacles as they make their way to the United States border on foot and via freight train-becomes all of ours as we root for them to survive and have the chance to build a new life. ![]() The 83rd pick for Oprah's Book Club, and the third in Oprah’s partnership with Apple, introduces us to a mother and son-Lydia, a bookstore owner from Acapulco, and her 8-year-old son Luca-who are forced to flee Mexico after a drug kingpin orders a hit on Lydia’s husband, a journalist covering the rise of a drug cartel. American Dirt is the 83rd-ever selection for Oprah's book club, and her third since her partnership with Apple after choosing The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout.Ī 2013 study from the New School concluded that “reading literature improves the capacity to identify and understand others’ subjective states.” If that’s true, then Oprah’s just-announced Oprah’s Book Club pick, the novel American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, will deepen readers’ understanding of a migrant’s plight. ![]()
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