Books by Jeanine Cummins and Complete Book Reviews
Jeanine Cummins, Author . New American Library $12.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-451-21053-1
On the night of April 4, 1991, during a spring-break family vacation to St. Louis, Cummins's 19-year-old brother, Tom, and his two female cousins were attacked while walking on the abandoned Old Chain of Rocks Bridge. During the attack, the...
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Jeanine Cummins. Flatiron, $26.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-20976-4
With this devastating yet hopeful work, Cummins (The Crooked Branch) breathes life into the statistics of the thousands fleeing their homelands and seeking to cross the southern border of the United States. By mere chance, Lydia Quixano Pérez and...
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Jeanine Cummins. Holt, $29.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-75936-8
Cummins (American Dirt) serves up an engrossing if occasionally cloying family drama. In 2023 Palisades, N.Y., Ruth Hayes receives a phone call from a hospital in Puerto Rico. Her daughter, Daisy, who recently left college over Ruth’s objections and
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