Jennine capo crucet biography channel
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Read the review on the Kirkus site here: //www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jennine-capo-crucet/make-your-home-among-strangers/
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE REVIEW:
"In Lizet's story, we have a thrilling, deeply fulfilling journey of a young woman stepping into her own power. This debut novel from Crucet (How to Leave Hialeah, 2009) heralds the birth of a talented novelist to watch."
"Here, perfectly articulated through Lizet, is the experience of being a first-generation child of immigrants in America—the lack of cultural capital, the casually racist comments of fellow students, the facade of campus diversity. “I’d yet to see a Latino professor on the Rawlings campus, though I knew from pictures in the school’s guidebook that there were a few somewhere,” Lizet wistfully notes. Here, too, is worldbuilding at its finest—Crucet crafts a rich setting and supporting characters to go along with her astute cultural analysis."
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Visit www.jcapocrucet.com for press, upcoming appearances, interviews, and more. Jennine Capó Crucet was born to Cuban parents and raised in Miami, Florida. Her highly-acclaimed debut story collection - named a Best Book of the Year by both the MIAMI HERALD and the MIAMI NEW TIMES - won the Iowa Short Fiction Award, the 2010 John Gardner Award, and the 2010 Devil's Kitchen Reading Award in Prose. She's been a finalist for the MISSOURI REVIEW Editor's Prize and the UC Irvine Latino Literary Award. In addition to writing, she's currently a college counselor at a nonprofit community-based organization that works with teens in South Central and downtown LA. A graduate of Cornell University, she divides her time between Miami and Los Angeles. Jennine is the recipient of the Winthrop Prize & Residency for Emerging Writers and scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her stories have appeared in magazines such as PLOUGHSHARES, EPOCH, GULF COAST, the
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I first met Jennine on the dance floor in a barn on a summer night at Breadloaf. Or at least I like to remember it that way. She’s an electric person, both in the flesh and on the page. She says the unexpected, and also the uncomfortable and necessary. She’s equal parts funny and fearless, irreverent and brilliant. Our interview, below:
MMB: inom think of you as a writer who addresses the specific impact a place has on the human experience and shaping of self, but in a way that feels fresh and contemporary. In your first collection, How to Leave Hialeah, Charles Baxter praised you for writing a book that starts “with Cuban American neighborhoods and cultures and then sails off into the direction of the great themes: love, familial bonds, aging, and death. And resurrection.”
Your latest novel, Make Your Home Among Strangers, concerns the daughter of two Cuban immigrants, and one who chooses to leave Miami for a more privileged college environment. What