Why people are mad about 'American Dirt,' a new novel about a Mexican family's journey to the US

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• There has been widespread backlash to the new novel "American Dirt," by Jeanine Cummins.
• The novel traces a Mexican mother and son's journey to the US.
• Multiple Latinx writers have questioned how Cummins wrote the story and whether it was hers to tell.
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Flatiron BooksIn the last week, you may have noticed a new book becoming the topic of many heated conversations.

"American Dirt," the new novel by Jeanine Cummins, traces the journey a mother and son make to the US, after a cartel kills their family in a massacre at a quinceañera.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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