"Crucet is a writer of immense talent and range. I literally couldn't put this book down. A story about the dreams and desires and histories buried inside our minds and bodies, our families and cities. Bold, surprising, moving, and very funny."
—Charles Yu, National Book Award winning
author of Interior Chinatown
COMING 3.05.24
Say Hello to My Little Friend
A NOVEL BY JENNINE CAPÓ CRUCET
Scarface meets Moby Dick in this groundbreaking novel—set in Miami and as marvelously strange as the city itself—about a young man’s attempt to capitalize on his mother’s murky legacy.
“A masterclass in pace and precision. Crucet can make you cry before you've even realized you've become invested and make you laugh even through the hurt. Brilliant."
—Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of National Book Award
Finalist Chain-Gang All-Stars
“A madcap, beautiful romp through a version of Miami I've been waiting to see in literature for years: a place of newness and impermanence, where the fluidity of language and culture and history is as central to its identity as the ocean and the tides. I loved this brilliant, hilarious novel, read it compulsively, and loved most of all its protagonist: Izzy, a young man hellbent on achieving the American dream of reinvention, and at the same time in danger of discovering more about himself and his roots than he ever hoped to know."
—Daniel Alarcón, award-winning author of The King is Always
Above the People and At Night We Walk in Circles
AVAILABLE now
My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education
BY JENNINE CAPÓ CRUCET
From the author of Make Your Home Among Strangers comes a collection of essays on feeling like an “accidental” American and the tectonic edges of identity in a society centered on whiteness.
“Crucet is an essential truth-teller, the whisper in your ear you should listen to, wise and funny as she tries to save your life—and this book is a triumph.”
—Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an
Autobiographical Novel and Queen of the Night
“My Time Among the Whites is a powerful book on the American experience that is both timely and still ticking, asking the reader to continue thinking past the book’s pages and toward a better country where every kind of human being has the right to belong and thrive. A funny, intimate, important, and most necessary read.”
—Amber Tamblyn, author of Era of Ignition
Praise for
Make Your Home Among Strangers
“Crucet's smart, scathing, and hilarious depiction of a Cuban-American girl at a fancy northeastern university is set in 1999—and involves an Elián González-inspired subplot—but its incisive take on race and class makes it both urgently of-the-moment and destined to be a classic.”
— Curtis Sittenfeld, vanity fair
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Winner of the International Latino Book Award for Best Latino-themed Fiction
Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
Named a best book BY
VANITY FAIR,
Cosmopolitan,
Harper's Bazaar,
The Guardian,
Redbook,
Bustle,
NBC Latino,
& Men's Journal
“Sharply funny.”
— The New York Times
“Few [debut novels] are as furious, funny or thorny as this one....Crucet captures the vernacular of Lizet's world at home and the unbearable alienation in her campus life and with a realness that's hard to forget.”
— Entertainment Weekly
“Anyone who has read Jennine Capó Crucet's story collection, How to Leave Hialeah, knows that she is a wonderful writer. Still, I was unprepared for the power of her debut novel, Make Your Home Among Strangers, which I found wise and honest, a love letter to Miami that doubles as a furious and funny manifesto about cultural and familial expectations.”
— Lauren Groff, author of
Fates and Furies
and Matrix