Cummins is white-though she has claimed a Puerto Rican grandmother-and stands accused of writing about peoples and cultures to which she does not belong. That said, it's certainly the case that American Dirt has received tons of negative coverage-not from the sort of Trump-supporting anti-immigrant people who might be expected to object to the story's ideology, but from liberals who think Cummins is engaged in cultural appropriation. Controversies can be very beneficial in the world of publishing, and part of me wonders whether the publisher is overhyping the safety concerns in order to make the book seem more taboo, and thus a must-buy. On the contrary, American Dirt is expected to debut as a number one fiction bestseller, thanks in part to Oprah's endorsement. But the book has so infuriated its target audience-immigration-sympathetic liberals-that its publisher has canceled the rest of Cummins' book tour, ostensibly due to " safety concerns." Jeanine Cummins' novel American Dirt depicts the migrant crisis from the perspective of a Mexican woman feeling cartel violence.
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