Make your home among strangers
Make your home among strangersJennine Capó Crucet

Make your home among strangers (2015)

Jennine Capó Crucet

Creators: Mixed

"When Lizet-the daughter of Cuban immigrants and the first in her family to graduate from high school-secretly applies and is accepted to an ultra-elite college, her parents are furious at her decision to leave Miami. Just weeks before she's set to start school, her parents divorce and her father sells her childhood home, leaving Lizet, her mother, and Leidy-Lizet's older sister, a brand-new single mom-without a steady income and scrambling for a place to live...Pulled between life at college and the needs of those she loves, Lizet is faced with difficult decisions that will change her life --

ISBN:
9781250059666
Length:
402 pages

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But this cover, having read that story now, I don't think that this cover is effective, I don't think that the text being across the entire cover is particularly effective, it's not clear to me what this does for the story. These particular colours aren't really pointed or poignant, or really connected in any way to what the story is about?

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