GIBE Article - 'American Dirt' fiasco exposes publishing industry that's too consolidated, too white and too selective

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❐ 'American Dirt' fiasco exposes publishing industry that's too consolidated, too white and too selective

2020 Feb 05

Copies of 'American Dirt' sit on a rack at a bookstore in New York. Laura Bonilla CAL/AFP via Getty Images

Publishers funnel massive amounts of resources into promoting titles that they think will become bestsellers. But they've become spellbound by 'stories of struggle' that can succumb to stereotypes.