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Another critic revealed that she’d written a review panning the book, too, and the magazine that commissioned her review killed it.Īll of these negative reviews centered on one major problem: American Dirt is a book about Mexican migrants, and author Jeanine Cummins has identified as white, calling her family mostly white “in every practical way” a few years ago. One of those New York Times reviews was a pan, the other was mixed at best. The New York Times had it reviewed twice - once in the daily paper, once in the weekly Book Review - in addition to interviewing the author and publishing an excerpt from the novel.īut as the publication date approached, the narrative around American Dirt has changed. (For most authors, a print run of 20,000 is pretty good.) It received glowing blurbs from luminaries like Stephen King, John Grisham, and Sandra Cisneros. Flatiron announced a first print run of 500,000 copies. It sold to Flatiron Books at auction for a reported seven-figure advance. The new novel American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, officially released on January 21, was anointed the biggest book of the season well before it came out.