Make Your Home Among Strangers Quotes

“There is nothing like the whites of someone’s eyes to convince you how very true what you believe is, how very much you must act on it.”
― Jennine Capo Crucet, Make Your Home Among Strangers

“A stack of banged-up grocery carts humped each other in a metal orgy in the far corner of the new Sedano’s parking lot.”
― Jennine Capo Crucet, Make Your Home Among Strangers

“I was surprising everyone, even myself: I was home for a holiday we didn’t really celebrate. Eating turkey on a Thursday seemed mostly arbitrary to my Cuban-born-and-raised parents, and so to my sister and me growing up. Still, my entire school career up to that point celebrated America and its founding—the proof: a half-dozen handprint turkeys stuffed under my mother’s mattress,”
― Jennine Capo Crucet, Make Your Home Among Strangers