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

3.0

A great book, though hard to read, about a girl from Hialeah Lakes who manages to get accepted to a fantastic college far from Miami, to the shock and horror of her family. Lizet is trying to find herself, like all college students, and hack it in a much more academically rigorous environment than she is used to, while trying to win back the support of her family. To make matters worse, this is 1999 and her family lives two blocks from Elian Gonzalez, sorry "Ariel Hernandez," and gets swept up in that drama. Things do not get resolved tidily.

It is a little unfair that the author changed Elian's name and made up a fake college for Lizet to go to, while at the same time dumping all over Hialeah Lakes HS.