"American Dirt" follows the harrowing journey of Lydia and her son Luca's escape from cartel-run Acapulco after a celebratory event ends in devastating tragedy. Lydia is painfully aware she is in ...

Myriam Gurba stares from the front cover of her new book like she expects you to blink first. Her previous book, “Mean,” a memoir about surviving sexual violence, was published in 2017 to admiring ...