Jeanine Cummins Libros

Lydia Quixano Perez lives in Acapulco, where she runs a bookstore and cherishes her son, Luca, and her journalist husband. Despite the encroaching dangers of drug cartels, her life is relatively comfortable. Lydia fills her store with beloved books, but everything changes when a man named Javier, who is charming and erudite, enters her shop. Unbeknownst to her, he is the leader of a brutal drug cartel. When Lydia's husband publishes a revealing profile of Javier, their lives are shattered. Forced to escape, Lydia and her eight-year-old son find themselves fleeing their middle-class existence. They embark on a perilous journey as migrants, riding la bestia—trains heading north toward the United States, the only place beyond Javier's reach. Along the way, they encounter countless others also fleeing their pasts, each with their own stories of loss and hope. As Lydia navigates this harrowing experience, she begins to question what they are truly running toward. This gripping narrative is filled with poignancy, drama, and humanity, leaving readers profoundly affected by Lydia's journey and the realities faced by countless migrants.

Vivid, visceral, utterly compelling, AMERICAN DIRT is the unforgettable story of a mother and son's attempt to cross the US-Mexico border. A sensation from the moment it published, it continues to create debate and ignite conversation globally. Yesterday, Lydia had a bookshop. Yesterday, Lydia was married to a journalist. Yesterday, she was with everyone she loved most in the world. Today, her eight-year-old son Luca is all she has left. For him, she will carry a machete strapped to her leg. For him, she will leap onto the roof of a high speed train. For him, she will find the strength to keep running

Ireland, 1959: Young Christy Hurley is a Pavee gypsy, traveling with his father and extended family from town to town, carrying all their worldly possessions in their wagons. Christy carries with him a burden of guilt as well, haunted by the story of his mother's death in childbirth. The peripatetic life is the only one Christy has ever known, but when his grandfather dies, everything changes. His father decides to settle down temporarily in a town where Christy and his cousin can attend mass and receive proper schooling. But they are still treated as outsiders. As Christy's exposure to a different life causes him to question who he is and where he belongs, the answer may lie with an old newspaper photograph and a long-buried family secret that could change his life forever...

A devastating true crime account of a murder that touched her own family, from the author of AMERICAN DIRT

'Rich and intricately drawn... luminous prose' Carolyn Parkhurst After the birth of her daughter Emma, the usually resilient Majella finds herself feeling isolated and exhausted. Then, at her childhood home, Majella discovers the diary of her maternal ancestor Ginny, and is shocked to read a story of murder in her family history. With the famine upon her, Ginny Doyle fled from Ireland to America, but not all of her family made it. What happened during those harrowing years, and why does Ginny call herself a killer? Is Majella genetically fated to be a bad mother, despite the fierce tenderness she feels for her baby? Determined to uncover the truth of her heritage and her own identity, Majella sets out to explore Ginny's past - and discovers surprising truths about her family and ultimately, herself.

What does it mean to call a place home? From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jeanine Cummins comes a deeply felt multigenerational family story. On her wedding day in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1968, Rafaela Acuña y Daubón has mild misgivings but marries Peter Brennan Jr. in a blaze of romantic optimism, unaware of the dramatic changes ahead as she uproots her family to the American Midwest, leading to a series of disappointments. In the 1980s, Rafaela's daughter, Ruth, yearns to belong amidst her mother's isolation in St. Louis, letting go of her language and childhood memories of Puerto Rico. Decades later, Ruth's daughter, Daisy, returns to San Juan, prompting reflections on the choices that have shaped their lives. When a hurricane devastates the island in 2023, leaving Daisy critically injured, Rafaela and Ruth return to the city where their story began. As they gather at Daisy's bedside, they revisit the moments that defined them: coming of age, falling in love, and facing heartbreaks and triumphs. Old memories and buried secrets resurface, challenging the family's understanding of belonging. This striking examination of marriage, family, and identity ultimately questions how three women, connected by geography and genetics, can have such differing views of home and whether they can find a common language to navigate their paths back.

Domov nie je miesto. Je to príbeh, ktorý si o sebe rozprávame. Rafaela si v roku 1968 v záchvate romantiky vezme muža, ktorým si nie je celkom istá – a týmto rozhodnutím sa začne jej cesta z rodného Portorika na americký Stredozápad. Namiesto nového začiatku však prichádza samota a sklamanie… Jej dcéra Ruth sa v osemdesiatych rokoch snaží za každú cenu zapadnúť – a tak sa vzdá jazyka, zvykov aj spomienok na detstvo v portorickom meste San Juan. Až o desaťročia neskôr, keď sa Ruthina dcéra Daisy vracia na rodný ostrov, musia tri generácie žien čeliť minulosti, rozhodnutiam, ktoré ich formovali, aj otázke, čo pre ne vlastne znamená slovo „domov“. Rozprávaj mi o domove je silný príbeh o matkách a dcérach, o láske, odlúčení, odvahe a túžbe niekam patriť. Jeanine Cumminsová v ňom píše o domove ako o mieste, ktoré si nesieme v srdci – a ktoré si niekedy musíme znova vybojovať.