Make Your Home Among Strangers -- Jennine Capó Crucet

from brangwinn

This story is so poignant I wonder if the author took this story from her own life. Creating a Cuban- American girl who went to an academically low-achieving high school yet managed to get into a challenging college program far from her home in Miami sounds like a Cinderella story. Perhaps it is ...

from Brainannex

It's odd to think of the turn of the millennium as historical but I guess it is now. This is a story of a young Cuban woman raised in Miami during the Elian Gonzalez situation. She is the first of her family to go to college and she is torn between her family in Florida and her new, created famil...

from mojomomma

An important and interesting book for a college employee to read. Lizet is a first generation college student from a poor area of Miami who applies and is accepted at a prestigious liberal arts college in upstate New York. This novel documents her first year at college in the fall of 1999 where s...

from Booklover217

"When everyone around you thinks they already know what your life is like, it's easier to play in to that idea"- Lizet Ramirez Lizet, daughter of Cuban immigrant parents decides to attend an elite college in order to carve a way I the world for herself. Her parents split right before she starts a...

from Beamis12

Lizet, youngest daughter of Cuban parents but accepted as a scholarship student at a prestigious college. Her parents marriage breaks up, her dad moving out at the same time Lizet leaves Miami to go east to school. Lizet is an interesting character that we will see change and grow throughout this...