Mark Sutton

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The Bookshelf · New books by Garth Greenwell, Isabel Allende and Jeanine Cummins · 24 Jan 2020 podcast

Well, I mean, that is one of the greatest novels of all time.

For the reason that I don't think as a writer she has the metaphorical strength to do this polemical side to the book and incorporate it in the way it's incorporated into Grapes of Wrath.

I think there's – obviously it's a complicated question.

It's something that comes up a lot.

Do you have the right to tell stories from outside your culture?

I think at the very least I would say if this world is a world that interests you, the world of migrants, the world of cartels, the world – just the country of Mexico, read more books than the book by the non-Mexican woman.

Find out more.

And she –

Some people talk about the fact that you have to do your diligence if you're not from that culture.

And she's obviously, she's been four years researching it.

She's talked to countless individuals on both sides of the border, people who know a lot about it.

So I find this debate about identity politics with these things a very, very difficult one to, and I think it comes down to the individual book itself.

in many, many cases.

I certainly don't think that someone like Janine Cummins, who, as you say, is the wife of an undocumented migrant, has no right to tell this story.

Yeah, I mean, and I guess the question I would ask about that and what I don't know is, does the New York Times have any Latino or Latina reviewers on their staff?

And if they don't, and that's why Lauren Groff was the reviewer, maybe that's something to consider.

But I just don't know the answer to that.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Yeah, you absolutely can't put it down.

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