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Jennine Capo Crucet

Biography

Jennine Capo Crucet

JENNINE CAPÓ CRUCET is the author of Make Your Home Among Strangers and a story collection, How to Leave Hialeah, winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award, John Gardner Book Prize, Devil's Kitchen Reading Award, and named a Best Book of the Year by the Miami Herald and the Latinidad List. A PEN/O. Henry Prize winner and Bread Loaf Fellow, she was a Picador Guest Professor at the University of Leipzig, Germany. She was raised in Miami and is currently assistant professor of English and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Jennine Capo Crucet

Books by Jennine Capo Crucet

by Jennine Capo Crucet - Education, Family, Fiction, Relationships

When Lizet --- the daughter of Cuban immigrants and the first in her family to graduate from high school --- secretly applies and is accepted to an ultra-elite college, her parents are furious at her decision to leave Miami. Just weeks before she's set to start school, her parents divorce and her father sells her childhood home, leaving Lizet, her mother, and her older sister Leidy --- a brand-new single mom --- without a steady income and scrambling for a place to live. Pulled between life at college and the needs of those she loves, Lizet is faced with difficult decisions that will change her life forever.