Tierra Americana / American Dirt

"Lydia Quixano Perez 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 ... 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 four 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"--

Jeanine Cummins es la autora bestseller de las memorias A Rip in Heaven y de las aclamadas novelas The Outside Boy y The Crooked Branch. Trabajó en el mundo editorial por diez años antes de convertirse en escritora a tiempo completo. Jeanine nació en España, y ha vivido en California, Maryland, Belfast (Irlanda) y, por último, Nueva York, donde ahora vive con su esposo irlandés y su joven familia.