A review by bubblegumbook
Make Your Home Among Strangers by Jennine Capó Crucet

4.0

The last book for my Multicultural Lit. class! waaahh! This story, although it's tame summary, is actually deep and almost depressing. It was so vivid and real and heartbreaking. I liked it a lot, but I had a couple issues: I thought the pacing was a little slow and there was too much information on things that didn't matter to the story. What I did like was all the characters and their interactions. I liked how Ariel's story paralleled Lizet's story. I loved how Ariel's life was messing up Lizet's and her mothers role in that. Lizet's mom broke my heart right along with Lizet's. I loved the ending where it was a glimpse into the future, which reminded me of movies that show pictures of each character and one or two lines saying what they are up to now. It was a great book overall, it really exposed the struggle of going away to college, how it is even more of a struggle for first generation students. Also the crises of being nonwhite in America. It was eye opening.