In their embarkment from their comfortable middle-class lifestyle, the two enter the migrant crisis of the Western Hemisphere. Lydia and Luca must rally their wit and remaining strength in a meandering flight that morphs into the infamously treacherous journey to Though chance has spared mother-and-son from the barrage of bullets, the cartel is stretching its vast tendrils through the once peaceful resort town in hopes to snare them. Was it something her now-dead husband, unflinching journalist Sebastián, had published? Was it Lydia’s rebuff of her intimate friend, Javier, after his identity as the regional drug lord was unveiled? Acapulcan bookstore owner, Lydia, shelters her eight-year-old son Luca in the shower stall of their bathroom as machine-gun toting hitmen from Los Jardineros cartel slaughter 16 of their family members gathered for their niece’s quinceañera or 15th birthday.Īs los sicarios retreat and the perfunctory investigations of the inept police begin, Lydia, Luca, and readers are left to wonder the motive for the heinous attack. Jeanine Cummin‘s third novel American Dirtopens with guns blazing.
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