I expected a very depressing person, considering the content and atmosphere of most of her stories. But I was proven wrong. Jennine Capó Crucet was a very funny person and easy to relate to. Not to say that she couldn’t be serious, because she showed that she could be serious. The point was, she also had a funny side.
What I took away from this presentation was that I could relate to her, that I could be on her level and that she wasn’t on some high throne. We could relate and reflect upon the same identity problems that we, and other first-generation Americans face today. Finding that delicate balance between your American identity and the identity of your home country is extremely difficult.
And I loved that she gave advice on how to make it in the literary world. I had expected most authors to be really uptight with that subject, like it was some great secret that no one could tell us, something we had to discover all by ourselves. I also really appreciated that she explained how she got the idea for “Resurrection”. I was really puzzled at how unusual that story was, it always struck me as the most odd story in the book. I could never really see it happen in real life or in Miami. A woman on ecstasy, clubbing on South Beach, asking for the dead to be raised back to life to help her keep her job? It was too strange to be in Miami, and unfortunately someone thought that it was not strange for Miami. Perhaps we can one day change this notion that Miami is all clubbing and voodoo.
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