There has been a storm of controversy surrounding
Jeanine Cummins' novel, AMERICAN DIRT. One big objection is that Jeanine shouldn't have written a story about a Mexican mother and her son trying to flee to the U.S. because she herself isn't Mexican and hasn't had that experience. I wrote
this short essay in response to it. I published it on Medium and am reading it here (a 3-minute read!).
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