Jennine Capo Crucet, Author . Univ. of Iowa $16 (169p) ISBN 978-1-58729-816-5
In this engrossing collection—sometimes intense, at other times darkly humorous—debut author Crucet portrays the daily challenges, heartbreak and family ties that penetrate Hialeah, a working-class Cuban-American neighborhood in Miami....
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Jennine Capo Crucet. St. Martin's, $25.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-05966-6
Crucet's first novel (after the collection How to Leave Hialeah) chronicles the fraught relationship between insightful, smart Lizet Ramirez and her complicated Cuban-American family, all of whom get caught up in a politically tinged situation at...
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Jennine Capó Crucet. Picador, $17 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-250-299437
In this conversational and often comic memoir-in-essays, Cuban American novelist Crucet (Make Your Home Among Strangers) examines entitlement and dislocation in a white world. In 1999, Crucet and her family drove from Miami to Cornell University (she
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