American Dirt

New York: Flatiron Books, 2020. SIGNED. 1st/1st. Purchased New. NF/F. Limited Signed Edition. Stated First U.S. Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Jeanine Cummins on the publisher's bound-in page. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Faint crease to spine tail. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Map endpapers. The dust jacket is unclipped ($27.99) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.

Lydia Quixano Pérez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable.

Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then one day a man enters the shop to browse and comes up to the register with a few books he would like to buy—two of them her favorites. Javier is erudite. He is charming. And, unbeknownst to Lydia, he is the jefe of the newest drug cartel that has gruesomely taken over the city. When Lydia's husband's tell-all profile of Javier is published, none of their lives will ever be the same.

Forced to flee, Lydia and eight-year-old Luca soon find themselves miles and worlds away from their comfortable middle-class existence. Instantly transformed into migrants, Lydia and Luca ride la bestia—trains that make their way north toward the United States, which is the only place Javier's reach doesn't extend. As they join the countless people trying to reach el norte, Lydia soon sees that everyone is running from something. But what exactly are they running to?