Natasha has twelve hours before her family is deported. Daniel is on his way to an interview that will decide his future. They meet in New York, and the universe seems to have a plan.
About This Book
On a single momentous day in New York City, a pragmatic, science-minded girl whose family is hours away from being deported to Jamaica crosses paths with a dreamy, poetry-loving boy on his way to an interview meant to set him on the dutiful path his Korean immigrant parents have chosen for him, and over the course of that day the two fall unexpectedly, improbably in love, even as the clock runs down on her time in the only country she calls home. Yoon writes a warm, fast, hopeful young adult romance that alternates the two voices and weaves in brief interludes on fate, science, history, and the lives brushing past the central couple, setting the girl's insistence that love is just chemistry against the possibility that some connections are meant to be, all under the pressure of an impending deportation. The tone is romantic and uplifting, its structure inventive. This suits readers who want a heartfelt, hopeful single-day romance with an inventive structure and real stakes around immigration and belonging, and anyone who enjoys a story about fate and connection. It fits less well anyone wanting realism about the timeline or a slow burn, since the book compresses a whole romance into one day. The detail that the entire love story unfolds in the hours before the heroine may be deported gives the book its urgent, poignant frame. Warm, hopeful, and inventive, it rewards readers seeking uplift. Those wanting plausibility may resist the pace, but its faith in connection is exactly what makes it so affecting.
Who This Is For
Best for readers who want to finish a book feeling better about the world than when they started. The prose is accessible: you can read this quickly and it never asks too much of you. It moves quickly: once you're in, it's hard to stop. If you're drawn to darker, more complex territory, this may feel slight.
Best Read When
Best read when you're in the mood for something warm and uplifting, and a read that's fast and propulsive.
What It Explores
The Sun Is Also a Star explores love in its most complicated forms, identity and the gap between who we are and who we pretend to be, and survival and what extreme circumstances ask of people.
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