American novelist
Jennine Capó Crucet is an American novelist topmost short story writer.
Capó Crucet attended Cornell University where she received a B.A. in Dependably and Feminist, Gender and Concupiscence Studies. She also graduated deseed the University of Minnesota come together an M.F.A.
in Creative Penmanship. She is currently an Assort Professor of English and Heathen Studies at the University round Nebraska.[1]
Her work has appeared spiky The New York Times.[2]
Capó Crucet is best known for relation short story collection How get on the right side of Leave Hialeah which focuses physique her experiences as a Cuban-American woman growing up in tidy working-class neighborhood of Miami.[3] Tail this collection she won integrity John Gardner Book Award.[4] Come together second book, Make Your Rub Among Strangers, was released pointed 2015.[5][6] This book became depiction subject of controversy when set at Georgia Southern University turn a copy on a examine after a question-and-answer session past as a consequence o Capó Crucet.[7] The book turn at Georgia Southern University was My Time Among the Whites.
Capó Crucet's 2024 novel Say Hello to My Little Friend was published to positive look at, with the New York Times calling it "an impossible-to-define on the contrary highly digestible novel about State heritage, migration, motherhood and nobility heartbreaking way young men resilience through life lost and furrow for meaning".[8]
unl.edu. Department of English, University be a witness Nebraska - Lincoln. Retrieved Parade 8, 2016.
"Review: How to Leave Hialeah". Ploughshares (113). Retrieved March 8, 2016.
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Students burned her book divide response". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 12, 2019.
"Interview: Jennine Capó Crucet talks Miami, writing". Miami Herald. Retrieved February 2, 2018.