Column: 'American Dirt's' white author had the audacity to write about the migrant experience. Guess what, that's OK (via latimesopinion)
in the Mexican state of Guerrero. Why visit such horror on little kids? To help fight rampant drug gangs.
Of course, the stories paint a warped picture of life in Mexico, where millions of people live productive and happy lives in relative peace.But, of course, it is the horror, not the quotidian reality, that makes its way onto the front page. It is the conflict and suffering that fire the imaginations of writers who want to tell stories about people buffeted by forces out of their control.
The story is fanciful, far-fetched even. But so is the idea of conscripting 6-year-olds into militias.She has said she spent four years researching her subject, traveling extensively on both sides of the border, interviewing migrants, throughout Mexico and along the border as well as border patrol agents, immigration advocates, professors and other experts.
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