A review by kerstan
My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education by Jennine Capó Crucet

5.0

My Times Among the Whites by Jennine Capó Crucet: I think what I most love about books is the ability to slip into another’s skin and walk around for a bit. This author gives us a series of essays about what it is like being a first generation American and first generation college student. We get to see what it’s like to navigate America whilst being seen as the Other by the dominant culture around her. She goes from her comfortable Cuban-American community in Miami, to college, and finally to a tenured teaching job in Nebraska and she is utterly candid and unguarded about all aspects of that journey. It’s an amazing narrative filled with laughter, love, pain, poignancy, fear, loss, and triumph. I love how forceful and vulnerable the author is. I look forward to reading more of her work. Five stars!