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American Dirt

Cummins Jeanine
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contemporary fiction crime thriller past tense third limited POV ~575 pp
features extracted 2026-04-12

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gritty traumatic desperate

A dark contemporary fiction. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Plot-driven and deeply introspective. Contains notable violence.

Style Fingerprint

Prose density 78
sparsedense
Pacing 65
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 15
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 20
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 85
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 80
externalintrospective
Ending 40
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 95
intimateepic

Content

Violence 95%
noneextreme
Sexual content 45%
noneexplicit
Humor 15%
seriouscomedic
Romance 10%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count143,743
Page count~575 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited

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