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1. The street is abuzz with noise from the rally. As Lizet hears voices and music wafting in through the open windows, she contemplates the beautiful weather, and laments the fact that in just one day she will have to return to the cold, unforgiving climate up at Rawlings. She remembers the first time she saw snow, just a few weeks ago, at the start of the month—she had been so excited that she.

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2. Aug 16,  · In “Make Your Home Among Strangers,” Lizet learns the truth and the falsity of those words — a statement as simple as a boy on a raft, awash in a complicated sea. Advertisement.

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3. Jennine CapO Crucet is the author of Make Your Home Among Strangers and a story collection, How to Leave Hialeah, winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award, John Gardner Book Prize, Devil's Kitchen Reading Award, and named a Best Book of the Year by the Miami Herald and the Latinidad List. A PEN/O. Henry Prize winner and Bread Loaf Fellow, she was.

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4. Aug 01,  · A Stranger at Home is based on the life of Margaret Pokiak-Fenton and written from the perspective of her year old self. It is about her experience of returning home two years after being away at a residential school. Margaret returns to her home in northern Canada a changed girl and faces the challenge of finding her true place in the world/5(52).

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5. Aug 08,  · Make Your Home Among Strangers, by Jennine Capó Crucet By dallasnews Administrator. AM on Aug 8, Lizet Ramirez, the first in her Cuban immigrant family to attend college, must learn to.

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6. Stranger At Home - Documentary. K likes. A feature documentary about the psychological combat injury epidemic affecting veterans, and the need for a federally mandated re-entry program.

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7. Five college strangers break each other down one calamity at a time.

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8. Make Your Home Among Strangers Lizet Ramirez is a first-generation Cuban American, the daughter of parents who fled the Communist Castro regime to a new life among strangers in the United States. She is the first in her family to go to college and the first from her Miami high school to be admitted to an elite northern college.

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