United in their fierce sense of place and infused with the fading echoes of a lost homeland, the stories in Jennine Capo Crucet\'s striking debut collection do for Miami what Edward P.
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..
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.
United in their fierce sense of place and infused with the fading echoes of a lost homeland, the stories in Jennine Capo Crucet\'s striking debut collection do for Miami what Edward P