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SCHOOL TIES
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SCHOOL TIES
SCHOOL TIES
Now is the perfect time to read Make Your Home Among Strangers (St. Martin's), and not just because it's a campus novel being published during backto-school season. Jennine Capo Crucet's smart, scathing, and hilarious depiction of a CubanAmerican girl at a fancy northeastern university is set in 1999—and involves an Elian Gonzalez-inspired subplot—but its incisive take on race and class makes it both urgently of-the-moment and destined to be a classic. Though Crucet is just 33, this debut novel shows that she's already a seasoned student of life.
CURTIS SITTENFELD
