American Dirt (Oprah's Book Club)

a novel about a good woman on the run with her beautiful boy. It's marvelous."
-Stephen King

"American Dirt is both a moral compass and a riveting read. I couldn't put it down. I'll never stop thinking about it."
-Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Dutch House and Commonwealth

"A heart-pounding, page-turning, can't-put-it-down, stay-up-till-3 a.m., adrenaline-pumping story...that examines, with sensitivity, care, and complexity of thought, immense, soul-obliterating trauma and its aftermath."
-Los Angeles Times

"This is the international story of our times. Masterful."
-Sandra Cisneros

"Relevant, powerful, extraordinary. It is a remarkable combination of joy and terror, infused always with the restorative power of a mother's love and the endless human capacity for hope."
-Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale, The Great Alone, and The Four Winds

"Destined to be a classic."
-Woman's Day

"Stunning...remarkable.... A novel as of the zeitgeist as any, American Dirt is also an account of love on the run that will never lose steam."
-Vogue

"I strive to write page-turners because I love to read them, and it's been a long time since I turned pages as fast as I did with American Dirt. Its plot is tight, smart, and unpredictable. Its message is important and timely, but not political. Its characters are violent, compassionate, sadistic, fragile, and heroic. It is rich in authenticity. Its journey is a testament to the power of fear and hope and belief that there are more good people than bad."
-John Grisham

"This one will tug at your heartstrings."
-Marie Claire

"Pulse-pounding."
-Chicago Tribune

"As literature, American Dirt is modern realism at its finest: a tale of moral challenge in the spirit of Theodore Dreiser wrapped inside a big-hearted social epic like The Grapes of Wrath."
-New York Journal of Books

"This is a book that's both hard to read and hard to put down and will no doubt spark a lot of conversation."
-Real Simple

"This extraordinary novel about unbreakable determination will move the reader to the core."
-Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Lydia and Luca are utterly believable characters, and their breathtaking journey moves with the velocity and power of one of those freight trains. Intensely suspenseful and deeply humane, this novel makes migrants seeking to cross the southern U.S. border indelibly individual."
-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Beautiful, straightforward language drives home the point that migration to safer places is not a political issue but a human one."
-Booklist (starred review)

"The most gripping thriller you'll read this side of Marathon Man. This thing goes harder than a Lee Child novel and the writing sings. Deserves to be a Gone Girl-level hit."
-Joe Hill, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman and Heart-Shaped Box

"This is a book everyone should read."
-Woman & Home

"This powerful new novel promises readers a ride they'll never forget."
-She Reads

"Both timely and prodigiously readable...An important book."
-Library Journal (starred review)

"A testimony of courage."
-Parade

"Riveting, timely, a dazzling accomplishment."
-Julia Alvarez, author of In the Time of the Butterflies, How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, Saving the World, A Wedding in Haiti, and Afterlife

"At once intimate and epic, American Dirt is an exhilarating and beautiful book about parental love and human hope."
-Rumaan Alam, author of the New York Times bestseller Leave the World Behind