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The Ezra Klein Show
Roxane critiqued the 2020 novel as a poorly executed, inaccurate portrayal of Mexican migrants, calling it objectively bad and noting numerous factual errors.
You wrote a piece about the book American Dirt. It's a book that came out in 2020 by a white woman. And it's about a Mexican woman and her son who leave for America to escape cartel violence. ... When...
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Episode: The Argument: Who Can Write About What?
Roxane critiqued the 2020 novel as a poorly executed, inaccurate portrayal of Mexican migrants, calling it objectively bad and noting numerous factual errors.
You wrote a piece about the book American Dirt. It's a book that came out in 2020 by a white woman. And it's about a Mexican woman and her son who leave for America to escape cartel violence. ... When you look at a book like American Dirt, it's a bad book. There were things about the book and about Mexico that were just silly in how bad they were and how inaccurate they were.
