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    My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education
    My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education
    My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education
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    My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education

    Written by Jennine Capó Crucet

    Narrated by Jennine Capó Crucet

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    From the author of Make Your Home Among Strangers, essays on being an "accidental" American?an incisive look at the edges of identity for a woman of color in a society centered on whiteness In this sharp and candid collection of essays, critically acclaimed writer and first-generation American Jennine Capo Crucet explores the condition of finding herself a stranger in the country where she was born. Raised in Miami and the daughter of Cuban refugees, Crucet examines the political and personal contours of American identity and the physical places where those contours find themselves smashed: be it a rodeo town in Nebraska, a university campus in upstate New York, or Disney World in Florida. Crucet illuminates how she came to see her exclusion from aspects of the theoretical American Dream, despite her family's attempts to fit in with white American culture?beginning with their ill-fated plan to name her after the winner of the Miss America pageant. In prose that is both fearless and slyly humorous, My Time Among the Whites examines the sometimes hopeful, sometimes deeply flawed ways in which many Americans have learned to adapt, exist, and?in the face of all signals saying otherwise?perhaps even thrive in a country that never imagined them here.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateSep 3, 2019
    ISBN9781980062264
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    Jennine Capó Crucet

    Jennine Capó Crucet is the author of four books, including the novel Make Your Home Among Strangers, which won the International Latino Book Award and was cited as a best book of the year by NBC Latino, The Guardian, The Miami Herald, and others; the story collection How to Leave Hialeah, which won the Iowa Short Fiction Prize and the John Gardner Book Award; and the essay collection My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education, which was long-listed for the PEN/Open Book Award. A former contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, she’s a recipient of a PEN/O. Henry Prize and the Hillsdale Award for the Short Story, awarded by the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Her writing has appeared on PBS NewsHour, National Public Radio, and in publications such as The Atlantic, Condé Nast Traveler, and others. She’s worked as a professor of ethnic studies and of creative writing, as a college access counselor for the One Voice Scholars Program, and as a sketch comedienne (though not all at the same time). Born and raised in Miami to Cuban parents, she lives in North Carolina with her family.

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    • 5/5
      I LOVE JENNINE I praise this book and the writing she does I’m so glad I found this audiobook it made the experience so much better than I would have done alone 10/10 !
    • 4/5
      The book was pretty good and unapologetic. To be honest I wasn't in live with the authors voice as a narrator though.
    • 4/5
      Short but impactful. And lots of laughs to balance the heavier moments.
    • 5/5
      I found amusement, comfort, and reluctant enlightenment in this beautifully written and powerfully related painful but triumphant memoir.
    • 5/5
      I enjoyed listening to it that I will also find/buy the physical book(s). Thank you for sharing your story.
    • 5/5
      It’s the kind of book that makes you want to be friend of the author.
    • 5/5
      A biting and engaging memoir from a talented novelist. I read Make Your Home Among Strangers (and loved it) and find Crucet's insights to be particularly necessary in our current political moment. A must-read.
    • 5/5
      This was an amazing read with beautiful prose. Crucet tells stories in a way that sucks you right in, and I’d love to read more from her.