Reading ‘American Dirt’ Completely Changed My Perspective of the Immigration Crisis…Then I Read About The Controversy.

And that’s when I really learned something.

Oprah drawing attention to an amazing work of fiction and coming under fire from the Hispanic authors community.

It wasn’t until I had finished devouring American Dirt and was on to the author’s forward, eager to learn more about how this tale had come into the world, when I realized this was the book getting so much negative press a…