Who is 'Brown' enough to write a novel? 'Female' enough? 'Gay' enough? Do these questions even matter? In this episode of Letters and Numbers, we ask what an author's identity and politics have to do with their writing, how the numbers stack up regarding representations of the US and Mexico in American Dirt, and how we, as readers, can expand our horizons.

Join author, linguist, and mathematician-in-the-making Sarah on an exploration of the world through the lens of letters and numbers!

Links from this episode:

Latinx and Own Voices novels to read instead/in addition to American Dirt: USA Today, Texas Observer, The Guardian, The Young Folks

Links to all statistics in this episode are available on Sarah's blog

Read Sarah's novel dealing with immigration, international borders, and human rights