Three years ago this month, the novel “American Dirt” by Jeanine Cummins landed in bookstores on a tsunami of enthusiasm. “Extraordinary,” Stephen King wrote in a prepublication blurb. “Riveting, ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. On a mild Monday this past February, a tense meeting unfolded in a ...

Five years later, she has a new novel, “Speak to Me of Home,” which draws directly from her family’s history in Puerto Rico and the Midwest. After publishing her last novel, Jeanine Cummins said she ...