02275cam a2200373 i 4500 623588930 TxAuBib 20200214120000.0 191231s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781432872243 large print 1432872249 large print (OCoLC)1139503445 NHP NHP eng eng rda rda NHP rda JBU rda NHP AUTNL UAP OMN TXDPL TxAuBib JBU AUTNL UAP OMN TXDPL TxAuBib rda Cummins, Jeanine. American Dirt / By Jeanine Cummins. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2020. 661 pages (large print) : illustration ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while cracks are beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, reasonably comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then one day a man enters the shop to browse and comes up to the register with four books he would like to buy, two of them her favorites. Javier is erudite. He is charming. And, unbeknownst to Lydia, he is the jefe of the newest drug cartel that has gruesomely taken over the city. When Lydia's husband's tell-all profile of Javier is published, none of their lives will ever be the same. Forced to flee, Lydia and eight-year-old Luca soon find themselves miles and worlds away from their comfortable middle-class existence. 20200214. Drug traffic Mexico Fiction. Organized crime Mexico Fiction. Immigrants Mexican-American Border Region Fiction. Bookstores Mexico Fiction. Acapulco (Mexico) Fiction. Large print books. lcgft Mystery fiction. Thrillers . lcgft Fiction. lcgft TXKPL