If 'American Dirt' has the Oprah Winfrey seal of approval, how controversial can it be?
:"As a Mexican immigrant, who was undocumented, I can say with authority that this book is a harmful, stereotypical, damaging representation of our experiences. Please listen to us when we tell you, this book isn’t it.""I thought this humanized that migration process in a way that nothing else I had ever felt or seen had," she said on the morning show.
Winfrey is not alone in her compliments. In a tweet that appears to have since been deleted, Mexican American actress Salma Hayek thanked Winfrey for sending her the book. "Now more than ever we need stories of hope & encouragement, endurance & the beauty of the human spirit. I can’t thank @Oprah enough for sending me #AmericanDirt. I continue to be in awe of her commitment to giving a voice to the voiceless & for loving harder in response to hate," the tweet read., "'American Dirt' is a vital, well-crafted, compelling and compassionately told story.
Love it or hate it, the book has certainly caught people's attention. One popular Maryland book festival invited an entire city to read the novel, as first reported by
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