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Jennine Capó Crucet: Make your home among strangers (2015) 3 stars

"When Lizet-the daughter of Cuban immigrants and the first in her family to graduate from …

Review of 'Make your home among strangers' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Lizet’s older sister Leidy graduated from high school and then took the next logical step. Her boyfriend hadn’t proposed yet so she went off birth control and got pregnant to try to force him to marry her.

Lizet’s response to this was to secretly apply to colleges and win a scholarship to an elite northern liberal arts school.

Guess whose decision infuriated her parents and was repeatedly called a betrayal?

Full review at www.spiritblog.net/?p=9105