The lives of a middle-class family living in Acapulco are upended in Jeanine Cummins's American Dirt. When her journalist husband writes a tell-all that exposes the head of a drug cartel, Lydia and her son become migrants as they flee Mexico for the hope of finding safety in America. Their perilous journey changes everything Lydia thought she knew about the people who risk everything for a chance at a better life.