Welcome to one of America's messiest divorces. Or, at least, that's how Oprah Winfrey previously described it.
07.03.2020 - 01:33 / variety.com
Even after years of doing her book club and weathering her share of controversies, Oprah Winfrey clearly wasn’t prepared for the backlash she received after picking “American Dirt” as the first selection for her Apple TV Plus series. Jeanine Cummins’ book about Mexican migrants has both become a bestseller and earned loud backlash, most notably from Latinx writers who have not, unlike Cummins, gotten a seven-figure advance to tell their stories.
Welcome to one of America's messiest divorces. Or, at least, that's how Oprah Winfrey previously described it.
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When Oprah Winfrey chose the novel “American Dirt” for her book club, she imagined engaging in an impassioned television dialogue about the narrative, which follows a Mexican mother and her son fleeing to the United States.