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From a recent review of “How to Leave Hialeah” and the 2011 PEN/O. Henry Prize Anthology in Pop Matters:

“This story should be required reading for all MFA students…and all university diversity coordinators.”

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Jennine Capó Crucet delivers a devastatingly sarcastic indictment of university diversity programs and their effects on students far from home. The narrator, a young Cuban-American, works her way out of Miami’s lower classes into the rarified, freezing air of Northern university life, only to encounter racism, ignorance, and identity crisis. As her new intellectual life leaves her increasingly alienated from her family, the narrator offers an unsparing account of living between cultures. “How to Leave” also pulls off that most difficult of tricks: writing well in second person. This story should be required reading for all MFA students…and all university diversity coordinators.

Read the whole review by clicking here.

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How to Leave Hialeah was named a Best Book of the Year by the Miami Herald and has been reviewed by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, the El Paso Times, the San Diego Union Tribune, The Rumpus, the Feminist Review, and many other places. Excerpts and links to these reviews are coming soon, along with links to interviews and articles about Jennine and her book.

For now, enjoy this interview with WLRN, where Jennine describes Miami in three words: WLRN Under the Sun

Or this interview, which originally appeared in a print issue of the Miami New Times, where Jennine tries to start some beef with Pit Bull the rapper: New Times Interview

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