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I remember being so homesick and realizing that where I came from was not something that existed in the cultural imagination outside the city. People used to think Miami was just partying in South Beach all the time.

'Some day,' I said, 'I will be an author.'

Jennine Capó Crucet

While my college had done an excellent job recruiting me, I had no road map for what I was supposed to do once I made it to campus.

Jennine Capó Crucet

I remember being so homesick and realizing that where I came from was not something that existed in the cultural imagination outside the city. People used to think Miami was just partying in South Beach all the time.

Jennine Capó Crucet

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, and that's sort of why I had to write it.

Jennine Capó Crucet

I was in Minnesota and Illinois when I wrote 'How to Leave Hialeah.' When I come to Miami, I'm happy. I don't need to write in Miami.

Jennine Capó Crucet

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 you can go back? Would you want to see things?

Jennine Capó Crucet

People really saw themselves in a big way in Elian Gonzalez's story.

Jennine Capó Crucet