Search  for anything...
Flatiron Books

American Dirt (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

    • Based on 165,872 reviews
Condition: New
Checking for product changes
$12.04 Why this price?
Save $20.95 was $32.99

Buy Now, Pay Later

As low as $3 / mo
  • – 4-month term
  • – No impact on credit
  • – Instant approval decision
  • – Secure and straightforward checkout

Ready to go? Add this product to your cart and select a plan during checkout. Payment plans are offered through our trusted finance partners Klarna, PayTomorrow, Apple Pay, and PayPal. No-credit-needed leasing options through Acima may also be available at checkout.

Learn more about financing & leasing here.

Free shipping on this product

Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt

To qualify for a full refund, items must be returned in their original, unused condition. If an item is returned in a used, damaged, or materially different state, you may be granted a partial refund.

To initiate a return, please visit our Returns Center.

View our full returns policy here.

Availability: Only 1 left in stock, order soon!
Fulfilled by Red's Corner
Arrives Sunday, May 12
Order within 23 hours and 29 minutes
Available payment plans shown during checkout

Description

Jeanine Cummins's American Dirt, the 1 New York Times bestseller and Oprah Book Club pick that has sold over three million copies Lydia lives in Acapulco. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while cracks are beginning to show in Acapulco because of the cartels, Lydia’s life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. But after her husband’s tell-all profile of the newest drug lord is published, none of their lives will ever be the same. Forced to flee, Lydia and Luca find themselves joining the countless people trying to reach the United States. Lydia soon sees that everyone is running from something. But what exactly are they running to? Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Flatiron Books; First Edition (January 21, 2020)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 400 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250209765


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 64


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.32 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.58 x 1.42 x 9.59 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #17,057 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #586 in Family Life Fiction (Books) #930 in Women's Domestic Life Fiction #999 in Contemporary Women Fiction


#586 in Family Life Fiction (Books):


#930 in Women's Domestic Life Fiction:


Frequently asked questions

If you place your order now, the estimated arrival date for this product is: Sunday, May 12

Yes, absolutely! You may return this product for a full refund within 30 days of receiving it.

To initiate a return, please visit our Returns Center.

View our full returns policy here.

  • Klarna Financing
  • Klarna Pay in 4
  • PayTomorrow Financing
  • Apple Pay Later
Leasing options through Acima may also be available during checkout.

Learn more about financing & leasing here.

Similar Products

Top Amazon Reviews

    • A great and important work of fiction
American Dirt is one of the best novels I have read. It’s realistic, poignant, beautifully written and well-researched. It’s the story of an affluent Mexican woman from Acapulco who is driven from he home when her family is massacred by a drug cartel, because her husband, a journalist, wrote a newspaper article about a local drug lord. The woman, Lydia, and her eight-year old son Luca find themselves a part of the great horde of migrants making their way to the United States in search of a better life. Along the way, they meet many memorable characters, most good, some evil. Most importantly, I gained a deep and lasting appreciation of the migrant experience. American Dirt has been pilloried by some in the media who think that the author did not have the qualifications to write it, i.e., she is not Mexican, not a migrant, and did not live the experience herself. This is extremely wrong-headed. Ms. Cummins has done a great service for Mexican, Central American and South American migrants by popularizing their tragic experiences, much as John Steinbeck did for American tenant farmers during the dust bowl in Grapes of Wrath, and Herman Wouk for victims of the Holocaust in Winds of War. One does not have to be a member of an ethnic group to empathize with its members or accurately recount their experiences-basic humanity and a talent for writing and research is all that’s required. The book has also been criticized for fictionalizing a great tragedy of our times, but the novelist Ayn Rand knew that popular fiction is often a much more effective means of promoting social change than mere journalism is. The author has been accused of stereotyping Mexicans, but all I found here were well-drawn, complex characters. I verified her research continuously as I read the book, and I found no inaccuracies, from the destruction of the beautiful city of Acapulco by the cartels, the pestilence of gangs and warlords haunting the Mexican highways, or the horrors of riding La Bestia, the freight trains that carry the migrants on top of them, between borders. I was particularly heartened by Cummins’ descriptions of the services provided for migrants by ordinary Mexicans, who donate food, water, shelter and support to them in sympathy with their plight. Of course, some may say that my opinion is invalid, because I am not Mexican. But I say kudos to Ms. Cummis for her bravery, which is already resulting in unjust repudiation. No book is perfect, including this one. The story did lag in places due to over-description. And perhaps Ms Cummins should have chosen a more plebian tragedy that caused her protagonist to be uprooted, although the murder of journalists, law enforcement and government official by cartels is rampant in Mexico. But these are minor quibbles about a very great and important book. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2020 by Thomas Burns
    • I've gained a new perspective!
Well written! Compelling story and insight as to the fear that makes people leave their whole life behind. Choices are often life or death!
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2024 by Amazon Customer
    • A well written story on immigrants
It is a well documented story of a family trying to get to the US from violence in Mexico and South America. It is very well depicted and sad as what these individuals have to endure on a daily basis. It is very depressing though but gives us a look from their eyes. Worth a read
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2024 by neonoodle
    • Amazing, elegant, heart wrenching
This book was so elegantly done, the images of life and death painted so clearly with Jeanine Cummins words across the pages. It is so amazing to me that this book is translated; the beauty and cruelty of Lydia and Luca’s journey is revealed with such clarity. So many of us live lives gifted to us from our ancestors, their struggles watered down for our consumption. We can never really know the fear, the hunger, the sheer determination that made them leave the counties of their births to make new lives somewhere frightening and new. Those ancestors may not all have left for reasons as grisly or bloody as Lydia’s or Soledad’s, but the roads have all been paved the same way: with grit, with pride, and with vision for a future so bright as to light the way ahead with its hope. Those of us who were born here have no true understanding of this struggle, and that is the gift from those who come before. We may grow up hungry or poor, but we do not fear for our very lives or pay for our freedoms in ways no human should experience. Like so many great books, American Dirt is so much bigger than the words that make it up. The story of Lydia and Luca is frightening and sad and horrifying and you cannot help but root for their very survival even as you wonder how many other undocumented immigrants from so many other countries undergo journeys like this one - or even ones that are unimaginably worse. This book invokes such a soul-deep connection that you want to know that its characters have healed and gone on to succeed and grow and and love. It makes you wonder how many people around you are living this life or something like it. This story is so incredibly vivid it invokes compassion and empathy that make you want to ask everyone about their story so that you can celebrate it with them. America continues to be built on the backs of the last people off the boat or across the border, but as a country we continue to treat those immigrants - documented and undocumented both - as though their very lives are somehow devalued in comparison to those of us who were born here. Our government and our citizens continue to perpetuate a system where immigrant labor is undervalued and their safety is not guaranteed. American Dirt brings the struggle of two families to light, but it is up to us as citizens to demand government reforms and impact societal change to address these issues in our country. We cannot continue to embrace our apathy for such a large group of citizens who silently and impotently struggle in our midst even while we rely so heavily on their very existence in our economy and our lives. Read American Dirt. It might change your life. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2020 by KristiDagz

Can't find a product?

Find it on Amazon first, then paste the link below.