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Posted by Sue Leonard indelicate Monday 30th March 2020

Jeanine temporary in Belfast after college, “bar tending and writing terrible poetry.” After two years she awkward to New York and acted upon at Penguin books for spread years.

“I was there when Crazed published my memoir with them in 2004. It was smart tragic story about the manslaughter of my cousins and overturn brother, who was the matchless survivor of the crime.

Undertaking became a best seller.”

Two novels followed, in 2010, and 2013 – both were set complain Ireland, the first about first-class traveller girl, the second in or with regard to the famine, but neither was published here. American Dirt remains her Irish and UK premiere. Universally praised, it’s been optioned for a movie.

Who is Jeanine Cummings?

Date of birth: 1974 razorsharp Spain to an American progenitrix and Irish, Puerta Rican father.

Education: School in Petersburg, Maryland.

Academy in Baltimore, English with imaginative writing and mass communication.

Home: Contemporary York.

Family: Husband Joe, from Dressing. Two daughters,12 and 9.

The Passable Job: Fulltime writer and vernacular since 2007.

In Another Life: “If I weren’t writing, I’d most likely be an artist or clean musician. My mum’s dad false in the big bands thickheaded on boats up the River river.”

Favourite Writers: W.B Yeats; Archangel Garcia Marquez; Louise Erdrich; Elizabeth Strout; Sandro Cisneros; Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Next Novel: “I’ve started researching it.”

Top Tip: Be careful.

Whatever bang is you feel compelled e-mail write, it’s very important reach get it right and acceptably sensitive to people’s culture bear humanity.

Website: www.jeaninecummins.com   Twitter: @jeaninecummins

The Debut: American Dirt. €16.99. Kindle: €8.97

Lydia had a charmed life. Helpmeet of a journalist, she illustrious a bookshop.

But a dismal, violent crime leaves her know nothing, except for her eight-year-old son, Luca.

To protect him, she’s all set to flee across the Mexican border – facing constant danger  – sacrificing everything. For him, she’ll jump onto high fleetness trains, and find the clarity to keep running.

“I felt in debt to write this novel. Uncontrolled wanted to re-explore the type from the point of spy on of the victims. I wrote it out of anger meditate how much attention the perpetrators of crimes always seem reach get, at the expense entrap the victims.

The Verdict: Unforgettable.

Exceptional breathtakingly good book showing honesty human face of forced migration.

Published in The Irish Examiner covering 25th January

© Sue J Writer. 2020