It seems disrespectful to my parents who left... to hear their story over and over again which always ends with... 'and I'll never go back as long as anyone in the Castro family is in power.' Well, what happens if… — Jennine Capó Crucet Copy Share Image
People really saw themselves in a big way in Elian Gonzalez's story. — Jennine Capó Crucet Copy Share Image
I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams and kept… — Jennine Capó Crucet Copy Share Image
I remember being so homesick and realizing that where I came from was not something that existed in the cultural imagination outside the city.… — Jennine Capó Crucet Copy Share Image
You leave home, and then when you come back, you have a kind of perspective that you didn't have before that in some way… — Jennine Capó Crucet Copy Share Image
I used to work for a non-profit organization where I worked as a mentor and a counselor to first-generation college student and they kept asking me 'What can I read to try to know what I'm about to be in for,' and while I did have some good suggestions, I figured... I don't know that that book is out there,… — Jennine Capó Crucet Copy Share
My parents were more surprised that I wanted to go away for school than anything. They didn't really understand the benefits. — Jennine Capó Crucet Copy Share Image
I have not been to Cuba, though if you count the stories my grandma told me growing up, I've been there in my head… — Jennine Capó Crucet Copy Share Image
It seems disrespectful to my parents who left... to hear their story over and over again which always ends with... 'and I'll never go… — Jennine Capó Crucet Copy Share Image
I was a first-generation college student as well as the first in our family to be born in America - my parents were born… — Jennine Capó Crucet Copy Share Image
I've had lots of wonderful people help motivate me over the years to work hard and write. — Jennine Capó Crucet Copy Share Image
When I left for college, my mom really latched on to the dog; She started buying him little outfits and calling him our brother,… — Jennine Capó Crucet Copy Share Image
