American Dirt
By Jan S. Gephardt As you may know, recently there’s been a huge dust-up over a book titled American Dirt. Since it touches on several questions important to us at Weird Sisters Publishing, we decided to weigh in. First, a little background. The story behind American Dirt is, pretty straightforwardly, the origin of a lot of literature: a writer from a dominant culture took a look at a dramatic situation and thought, “Wow! This would make a great story!” So…