The latest episode of 'Oprah's Book Club' found the talk show host carefully but candidly wading into the controversy around her selection, 'American Dirt.'
— and was lambasted for using the first-person voice of a fictional Latina protagonist named Lydia.
“I want you to know I have ... heard your concerns,” she said, and that’s why she opted to push ahead with the show and explore various sides of the argument. “I believe we can do this without having to cancel, to dismiss or to silence anyone,” she said. Grande, who told her affecting story about crossing the U.S. border from Mexico as a child, saying she prayed for wings so she could keep up with the adults and not get caught, voiced frustration that the publishing industry frequently chooses to elevate white voices above others.
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