Make your home among strangers a novel

"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 se...

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Main Author: Crucet, Jennine Capó
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Edition:First editon.
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Summary:"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 Leidy-Lizet's older sister, 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 -- Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:ix, 388 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN:9781250059666 (hardcover)
1250059666 (hardcover)
9781250094551
Author Notes:Jennine Capó Crucet is the author of two previous books and is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times . Her novel, Make Your Home Among Strangers , was a New York Times Editor's Choice book, the winner of the 2016 International Latino Book Award, and was cited as a best book of the year by NBC Latino, the Guardian , and the Miami Herald ; it has been adopted as an all-campus read at over twenty-five American universities. Her short stories have been honored with the Iowa Short Fiction Award, an O. Henry Prize, and other awards. Raised in Miami, Florida, she is an associate professor in the Department of English and the Institute for Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska.