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Nov 23, 2024 | 
ft.com | Jennine Capó Crucet
This article is part of FT Globetrotter’s guide to MiamiMiami is best known as a party city.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
newyorkfolk.com | James White |Jennine Capó Crucet
Remember the orca revolt? Late last spring, media outlets began reporting that a group of orca whales were ramming seacraft near the Strait of Gibraltar. Although most encounters ended without incident, a number of boats were damaged. Three sank from the attacks. The phenomenon went viral, especially after more than one observer suggested that the attacks appeared to be coordinated.
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Mar 9, 2024 | 
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Jennine Capó Crucet |Urban Waite
“Say Hello to My Little Friend” by Jennine Capó Crucet. Photo: RiverrunTo call the novel “Say Hello to My Little Friend” by award-winning author Jennine Capó Crucet a book about Miami would be akin to calling “Moby-Dick” by Herman Melville just a book about a whale. Crucet, like Melville, has created so much more than simply a novel. This is an experience.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
bookshop.org | Jennine Capó Crucet
"The miracle is not that Say Hello to My Little Friend works, so much as that it enlarges our sense of the possible, recalling the vanity of human aspiration not through a lens of ridicule but through one of empathy. The chorus of voices, the point-of-view shifts--all of it allows Crucet to imagine her way to a larger authenticity...I'm not naive enough to believe that a work of fiction can change the way we live.
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
litromagazine.com | Jennine Capó Crucet
What else. What else? Yes, what else. Well, during the reception, the wedding boat’s DJ knows from experience to play the song Suavemente by Elvis Crespo because if not, the event will be deemed a complete failure of a celebration. The DJ also knows to play the song La Negra Tiene Tumbao by Celia Cruz because if not, see above. Yes, good, but what else? What else? Okay, once the cake’s been cut, no woman on the dance floor should be wearing shoes.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Stephen Jones |Waubgeshig Rice |Jennine Capó Crucet |Natasha Pulley
Jones (Don’t Fear the Reaper) brings his Jade Daniels trilogy to a bloody end in this riotously entertaining tale. It’s 2023, eight years after 17-year-old slasher movie aficionado Jade was both unable to save her hometown of Proofrock, Idaho, from the gruesome events now remembered as the Independence Day Massacre and unjustly imprisoned as the perpetrator of the bloodbath.
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Dec 27, 2023 | 
libraryjournal.com | Jennine Capó Crucet
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Twenty-year-old Cuban American Izzy Reyes lives in the slowly submerging city of Miami. As a professional celebrity look-alike, Izzy is at a crossroads; he has just been enjoined from impersonating the rapper Pitbull. To fill this intolerable void, Izzy hits on the idea of re-creating Al Pacino’s
Scarface character Tony Montana, complete with supporting cast.
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Dec 2, 2023 | 
citylights.com | Jennine Capó Crucet
"My Time Among the Whites lay[s] bare the ways power and money and race and class work in America in a way that's serious but that can also be bitingly funny." –Anna North, Vox "Remarkable.... an interrogation of the American Dream, of American myths, and the whiteness that undergirds it all.
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Sep 26, 2023 | 
traveler.es | Jennine Capó Crucet
Miami logra darme la misma sensación de familiaridad siempre que la visito, es algo así como ir a la panadería del barrio en la que mi familia lleva décadas tomando su café cada domingo por la mañana. Aun así, cada vez que vuelvo desde que me mudé descubro zonas de la ciudad que han cambiado por completo. No es el caso de la tienda de ropa vintage Miami Twice, en South Miami, donde me compré mi vestido para el baile de graduación.
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Sep 16, 2023 | 
simonandschuster.com | Jennine Capó Crucet
Hardcover LIST PRICE $27.99 PRICE MAY VARY BY RETAILER About The Book Scarface meets Moby Dick in this groundbreaking, darkly comic novel about a young man’s attempt to capitalize on his mother’s murky legacy—a story steeped in Miami’s marvelous and sinister magic. Failed Pitbull impersonator Ismael Reyes—you can call him Izzy—might not be the Scarface type, but why should that keep him from trying?
