We heard a lot about border issues in the 2024 political campaign. The October, 2024 book choice, American Dirt by Jeanne Cummings, was a timely one as it deals with a woman and son’s trek to the U.S. to escape the drug cartels of Acapulco, after her husband’s murder.
NPR’s Maureen Vorrigan says the novel, “captures what it’s like to have the familiar order of things fall away and the rapidity with which we humans, for better or worse, acclimatize ourselves to the abnormal…..American Dirt is the novel that, for me, nails what it’s like to live in this age of anxiety, where it feels like anything can happen, at any moment. Another reviewer said it is our generation’s Grapes of Wrath.
The book club met on Zoom October 14. Contact Jennifer Roberts Crittendon <315-633-2817> for info on upcoming books and to get the Zoom link.