Ploughshares talks to Jennine Capó Crucet about her new novel, Make Your Home Among Strangers, and what it was like growing up with parents who bought into the American Dream:
I mean, my parents named me Jennine after the Miss America runner up the year I was born (though spelled differently, I think)—so it goes that deep for them.
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