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How to Leave Hialeah (Iowa Short Fiction Award)
Jennine Crucet
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Description for How to Leave Hialeah (Iowa Short Fiction Award)
Paperback. Presents stories which intend to expand our ideas and our expectations of Miami by exposing its tough but vulnerable underbelly. Num Pages: 194 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 268.
United in their fierce sense of place and infused with the fading echoes of a lost homeland, the stories in Jennine Capó Crucet's striking debut collection do for Miami what Edward P. Jones does for Washington, D.C., and what James Joyce did for Dublin: they expand our ideas and our expectations of the city by exposing its tough but vulnerable underbelly. Crucet's writing has been shaped by the people and landscapes of South Florida and by the stories of Cuba told by her parents and abuelos. Her own stories are informed by her experiences as a Cuban American woman living ... Read more
United in their fierce sense of place and infused with the fading echoes of a lost homeland, the stories in Jennine Capó Crucet's striking debut collection do for Miami what Edward P. Jones does for Washington, D.C., and what James Joyce did for Dublin: they expand our ideas and our expectations of the city by exposing its tough but vulnerable underbelly. Crucet's writing has been shaped by the people and landscapes of South Florida and by the stories of Cuba told by her parents and abuelos. Her own stories are informed by her experiences as a Cuban American woman living ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University Of Iowa Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Iowa, United States
ISBN
9781587298165
SKU
V9781587298165
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Ref
99-20
About Jennine Crucet
Jennine Capó Crucet was born to Cuban exile parents and raised in Miami. Her writing has appeared in Ploughshares, the Southern Review, the Northwest Review, and other magazines. She is the recipient of a Bread Loaf Scholarship and has been a finalist for the Missouri Review Editors' Prize and the University of California, Irvine, Chicano/Latino Literary Prize. A graduate of ... Read more
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