Jennine Capo Crucet Knihy

By turns surreal and satirical, this novel forces us to pay attention to the ongoing global immigration crisis, to question immigration's legacy on American culture, and to ask directly what it means to chase the American Dream.

United in their fierce sense of place and infused with the fading echoes of a lost homeland, the stories in Jennine Capo Crucet's striking debut collection do for Miami what Edward P. Jones does for Washington, D.C., and what James Joyce did for Dublin: they expand our ideas and our expectations of the city by exposing its tough but vulnerable underbelly.

A young, Cuban-American woman is accepted into an elite college right as her home life unravels.