Say Hello to My Little Friend

Crucet is an essential truth-teller, the whisper in your ear you should listen to, wise and funny as she tries to save your life-and this book is a triumph. – ALEXANDER CHEEJennine Capó Crucet is an electrifying new talent-she’s funny, she’s smart, and she knows how to tell great stories – CURTIS SITTENFELDJennine Capó Crucet is a wonderful writer… wise and honest… furious and funny – LAUREN GROFF, author of Fates and Furies and MatrixI literally couldn’t put this book down. Bold, surprising, moving and very funny. A story about the dreams and desires and histories buried inside our minds and bodies, our families and cities. Capó Crucet is a writer of immense talent and range – Charles Yu, author of National Book Award Winner Interior ChinatownSay Hello to My Little Friend is superb. It’s a rare thing to see a novelist so fully in control of such disparate elements. The voice is astonishing: wry, knowing, erudite, even metafictional when necessary, and the plot it relates is irresistible. This is high level world-building. So much so that it feels both wildly inventive but also like the kind of novel only an artist directly descending from immigrants to this country could birth, one that respectfully and skillfully transmutes the literary and historical past but always through the prism of our all-powerful American pop culture. The result is that truly rare object, a novel that helps us better sense that secret hum of art and love undergirding human existence – Sergio de la Pava, award-winning author or A Naked Singularity and Lost EmpressSay Hello to My Little Friend is a masterclass in pace and precision. Crucet can make you cry before you’ve even realized you’ve become invested and make you laugh even through the hurt. Brilliant – Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, National Book Award Finalist of Chain Gang All StarsBoth Ismael and the whale are singularly compelling characters, and both will break your heart. Unclassifiable and unforgettable. * Kirkus *A pacey, knowing, smartly insightful read that is laugh-out funny and desperately sad. * Marie Claire *

JENNINE CAPO CRUCET is the author of four books, including the novel Make Your Home Among Strangers, which won the International Latino Book Award and was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice book, and the multiple award-winning story collection How to Leave Hialeah. Her essay collection My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education, based on her columns in the New York Times, was longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award. She is a PEN/O. Henry Prize winner, and her writing has appeared on PBS NewsHour, NPR, and in The Atlantic, among other publications. Born and raised in Miami to Cuban parents, she now lives in North Carolina with her family.