Books written by Jennine Capó Crucet

  • Make Your Home Among Strangers: A Novel

    Her urgent, mordantly funny voice leaps off the page to tell this moving story of a young woman torn between generational, cultural, and political forces; it's the new story of what it means to be American today.

  • How to Leave Hialeah

    I said, Mom, wait til later, but she pinched me hard on the back of the arm, not wanting me to mess up her distraction. —Ay, qué lindo! they all said when they ... Her hair, still short and sprayed stiff, was bright yellow this year.

  • My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education

    In prose that is both fearless and slyly humorous, My Time Among the Whites examines the sometimes hopeful, sometimes deeply flawed ways in which many Americans have learned to adapt, exist, and—in the face of all signals saying ...

  • My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education

    In prose that is both fearless and slyly humorous, My Time Among the Whites examines the sometimes hopeful, sometimes deeply flawed ways in which many Americans have learned to adapt, exist, and—in the face of all signals saying ...

  • Make Your Home Among Strangers: A Novel

    Urgent and mordantly funny, Make Your Home Among Strangers tells the moving story of a young woman torn between generational, cultural, and political forces; it's the new story of what it means to be American today.