How would I manage if I lived in a place that began to collapse around me? If my children were in danger, how far would I go to save them? I wanted to write about women, whose stories are often overlooked. So I saw an opening for a novel that would press a little more intimately into those stories, to imagine people on the flip side of that prevailing narrative. But the depiction of that violence can feed into some of the worst stereotypes about Mexico. Those novels provide readers with an understanding of the origins of the some of the violence to our south. Some fiction set in the world of the cartels and narcotraficantes is compelling and important - I read much of it during my early research.
Or in any case, I think the world has enough stories like those. Jeanine Cummins is the author of the novels AMERICAN DIRT, THE OUTSIDE BOY and THE CROOKED BRANCH, a. I'm less interested in the violent, macho stories of gangsters and law enforcement. I'm interested in characters who suffer inconceivable hardship, in people who manage to triumph over extraordinary trauma. Because that crime and the subsequent writing of the book were both formative experience in my life, I became a person who is always, automatically, more interested in stories about victims than perpetrators. I wrote about that horrible crime in my first book, my memoir, A Rip in Heaven. 2 3 She has written four books: a memoir titled A Rip in Heaven and three novels, The Outside Boy, The Crooked Branch, and American Dirt.
My brother was beaten and also forced off the bridge. Jeanine Cummins (born December 6, 1974) 1 failed verification is an American author of Irish and Puerto Rican heritage. “ When I was sixteen, two of my cousins were brutally raped by four strangers and thrown off a bridge in St.
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