Make Your Home Among Strangers

How do names correlate to identity? In what way does Lizet experience having multiple identities based on what she is called, or calls herself?

Ariel Hernandez is a ghostly figure, lurking at the edges of the plot of this novel. What is his purpose? How does his situation mimic Lizet’s?

Early in the novel, Ethan bonds with Lizet over being from a low-income family—though he is white, Lizet feels relief hearing that he also struggles in this way. How does this experience reflect the blurred lines between race, class, and gender in other moments in the novel?