EW reviews Marcelo Hernandez Castillos Children of the Land and Jeanine Cummins American Dirt.

(Oprah Winfreyalsoselected it for her book club.)

“I saw agents in trees,” he recalls.

American Dirt; Children of The Land

“I saw their heads popping out of the ground like tulips.

I felt their hands touching every coin in my pocket.”

Those psychic loops, though, and the sometimes fragmentary quality of his writing, feel only appropriate.

Children of theLand: B+American Dirt:B

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