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American Dirt, Jeanine Cummins's #1 New York Times bestseller that has sold over 1.4 million copies, is finally available in paperback...

#1 New York Times Bestseller OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK"Extraordinary."-Stephen King"This book is not simply the great American novel, it's the great novel of las Americas. It's the great world novel! This is the international story of our times. Masterful."-Sandra CisnerosTambién de este lado hay sueños. On this side too, there are dreams.Lydia Quixano Pérez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the lov...

Extraordinary."--Stephen King"This book is not simply the great American novel, it's the great novel of las Americas. It's the great world novel! This is the international story of our times. Masterful."--Sandra CisnerosTambién de este lado hay sueños. On this side, too, there are dreams.Lydia Quixano Pérez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a j...

Breathtaking... I haven't been so entirely consumed by a book for years' Telegraph'I couldn't put it down. I'll never stop thinking about it' Ann PatchettFEAR KEEPS THEM RUNNING. HOPE KEEPS THEM ALIVE.Vivid, visceral, utterly compelling, AMERICAN DIRT is the unforgettable story of a mother and son's attempt to cross the US-Mexico border. A sensation from the moment it published, it continues to create debate and ignite conversation globally.Ye...

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From the acclaimed author of AMERICAN DIRT comes the deeply moving story of two mothers from two very different times

A devastating true crime account of a murder that touched her own family, from the author of AMERICAN DIRT

Acapulco, Mexiko. Nur Lydia und ihr kleiner Sohn Luca überleben das Blutbad, bei dem ihre gesamte Verwandtschaft von einem Drogenkartell ermordet wurde, und können fliehen. Um unerkannt bis zur US-mexikanischen Grenze zu gelangen, fasst Lydia einen gefährlichen Entschluss: Sie und ihr Sohn wagen sich auf den berüchtigten Güterzug »La Bestia«, der wie eine Bestie viele der Migranten verschlingt, die mit ihm Richtung Norden fahren. Auch für Lydi...

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Eine Mutter und ihr Kind auf einer atemlosen Flucht durch ein Land, das von Gewalt und Korruption regiert wird Gestern besaß sie noch einen wunderbaren Buchladen. Gestern war sie glücklich mit ihrem Mann, einem Journalisten. Gestern waren alle, die sie am meisten liebte, noch da. Heute ist ihr achtjähriger Sohn Luca alles, was ihr noch geblieben ist. Für ihn bewaffnet sie sich mit einer Machete. Für ihn springt sie auf den Wagen eines Hoch...

Lydia Quixano Perez runs a bookstore in the Mexican city of Acapulco where she lives with her beloved son and journalist husband. When Lydia's husband publishes a tell-all profile of Javier, the jefe of the newest drug cartel that has gruesomely taken over the city, none of their lives will ever be the same.Forced to flee, Lydia and eight-year-old Luca soon find themselves miles and worlds away from their comfortable middle-class existence. In...

#1 New York Times Bestseller OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK"Extraordinary."-Stephen King"This book is not simply the great American novel, it's the great novel of las Americas. It's the great world novel! This is the international story of our times. Masterful."-Sandra CisnerosTambién de este lado hay sueños. On this side, too, there are dreams.Lydia Quixano Pérez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the lo...

Where will we go, Mami?' 'I don't know, mijo' she says, 'We'll see, We'll have an adventure, 'The afternoon of her niece's fifteenth birthday party, all Lydia's worst nightmares come true, As she and her son Luca cower in a bathroom shower stall, the rest of her family is gunned down by members of Acapulco's most notorious drug cartel, to make an example of her journalist husband, Lydia's survival instincts kick in immediately, and before the ...

The unforgettable story of a mother and son fleeing a drug cartel to cross the US-Mexico border.

From the national bestselling author of American Dirt and A Rip in Heaven comes the deeply moving story of two mothers from two very different times.After the birth of her daughter Emma, the usually resilient Majella finds herself feeling isolated and exhausted. Then, at her childhood home in Queens, Majella discovers the diary of her maternal ancestor Ginny-and is shocked to read a story of murder in her family history.With the famine upon he...

A poignant, coming of age novel about an Irish gypsy boy's childhood in the 1950's from the national bestselling author of A Rip in Heaven and American Dirt.Ireland, 1959: Young Christopher Hurley is a tinker, a Pavee gypsy, who roams with his father and extended family from town to town, carrying all their worldly possessions in their wagons. Christy carries with him a burden of guilt as well, haunted by the story of his mother's death in chi...

The acclaimed author of American Dirt reveals the devastating effects of a shocking tragedy in this landmark true crime book-the first ever to look intimately at the experiences of both the victims and their families.A Rip in Heaven is Jeanine Cummins' story of a night in April, 1991, when her two cousins Julie and Robin Kerry, and her brother, Tom, were assaulted on the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge, which spans the Mississippi River just outside...