What do you recommend?

“I reread Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. I needed to read a love story from a woman of color. …Cowboys and East Indians by Nina McConigley. Her home state is Wyoming; she’s from Casper. She’s doing [for Western women] what I’m trying to do for Hialeah girls. She’s a writer after my own heart. She’s a cowboy version of somebody from Hialeah.”

Jennine Capó Crucet, author of Make Your Home Among Strangers

This story was originally published August 26, 2015 at 1:51 PM with the headline "What do you recommend?."