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

2.0

I enjoyed reading this book, and the experience was made better by being able to discuss it in with other fellow Latinx folks. What I didn't enjoy about the story was that the author had an idea of what she wanted her book to be about: displaying the college experience of the daughter of immigrants, but that story got lost with other subplots that were introduced. Reading I also felt that a lot of the characters weren't fleshed out enough, you couldn't understand their intentions or reasons for acting the way they did, and other things just didn't make much sense. I wish the family in this book and their relationships had been more developed, I believe that would have added more to the story since it was so family centric. As a Latinx who recently immigrated I could identify with many things mentioned in the book, but others just felt foreign to me, which I understand because we are all different. The point I'm trying to make is that this story started out in a good place but ended up being very muddle and that's why I didn't like as much as I hoped.

*bought in 2018