American Dirt

Dismissing this book because a white American woman is telling a Mexican woman's story is offensive to me as an artist. On the other hand, as an artist, I didn't think the book was very good. But then, I'm not a fan of melodrama, and I suspect that those who are might like this book a lot. Inciting incident: woman's family is slaughtered by a drug cartel in Acapulco. Will she and her 8-year-old son survive on their journey to the US to escape? That's the question presented by the novel, and it doesn't interest me very much.