American Dirt by Jeanine CumminsMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Review of an ARC provided by BookBrowse. A good novel, with some moments of excitement and others of suspense. Certainly not in the same class as Grapes of Wrath as the blurb says. The heroine and her son a bit more affluent and protected than most migrants from Central America trying to cross Mexico to reach the safety of the United States. The biggest unusual danger in this specific emigration flight is the riding of the trains--though Indians in India ride the roofs of trains as a matter of course. The dangers of rape, robbery, murder--always present when there is a mass of poor desperate people, whether trying to cross countries or confined in camps. Okay book, wouldn't rush out to buy it.
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