Money makes a book controversy go round
On advances, gambling, and American Dirt
American Dirt should be the kind of book that’s dead on arrival. I have not read it because I did not receive a galley and I’m not paying for it, but I’ve seen the first sentences and that is enough for me to say with certainty that it is poorly written. Here are two example sentences as evidence:
The first sentence of the book:
“One of the very first b…