![]() ![]() In addition to being my father, William Styron was a literary lion of the sort that roamed the cultural savanna in the mid-20th century. In the Facebook post, a friend said she found the charges leveled against Cummins “frightening.” “After all,” she wrote, “William Styron wasn’t a female Holocaust survivor.” Above all, Cummins was being called out for appropriating the immigrant experience, and for worrying that she might not be “brown enough” to tell the story but doing it anyway. It wasn’t deserving of the money and advance praise that had been heaped upon it. 1 on the New York Times Best Seller List, criticism was raining down from all corners: It wasn’t good. ![]() A couple of news cycles ago, I came upon a Facebook post about the Jeanine Cummins novel American Dirt that hit close to home. ![]()
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