Make Your Home Among Strangers by Jennine Capo Crucet is a great debut novel about a Cuban immigrant family. It is about the first in the family to go to college and what that experience is like.

Lizet is accepted to an elite, white, New England college and leaves her family behind in Miami. She finds herself swimming in unknown waters, while an Elian Gonzales based story plays out back home. This novel delves into what it means to be true to yourself, your culture, your family and how hard navigating those waters can be even for the smartest of us. A great read.