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I read this book for the Goodreads' book club Diversity in All Forms!
This book however was not my favorite. The older I get the more I struggle with YA love stories. Besides the unrealistic love story in this book it covered really difficult cultural topics. The main character Natasha, is an illegal immigrant in New York City and is going to be deported to Jamaica. The other main character, Daniel, is a 1st generation immigrant. His parents moved to the USA from South Korea and he is struggling ...more
This book however was not my favorite. The older I get the more I struggle with YA love stories. Besides the unrealistic love story in this book it covered really difficult cultural topics. The main character Natasha, is an illegal immigrant in New York City and is going to be deported to Jamaica. The other main character, Daniel, is a 1st generation immigrant. His parents moved to the USA from South Korea and he is struggling ...more
3.5 stars
This book gave me two points of view that I've never seen before. One of the main characters is a boy who's parents came from Korea. He's second-generation. Since he grew up in America, he has some disconnect from the way his parents think about things. The other main character is a girl whose family came from Jamaica to America when she was eight. Since she was so young, America is really the only place she knows as home. Her family came on visas and never left so they are in the count ...more
This book gave me two points of view that I've never seen before. One of the main characters is a boy who's parents came from Korea. He's second-generation. Since he grew up in America, he has some disconnect from the way his parents think about things. The other main character is a girl whose family came from Jamaica to America when she was eight. Since she was so young, America is really the only place she knows as home. Her family came on visas and never left so they are in the count ...more
3.5 stars- half feel-good/light romance, 1/4 teen angsty YA, 1/4 interesting asides about interconnectivity, fate, and choices, Nicola Yoon's The Sun Is Also a Star is a really good YA book. I needed something light, and while this love story of a teenaged undocumented Jamaican immigrant girl and a first generation teenaged Korean-Amerian boy had some heavier undertones of racial disparities and kind of heavy-handed motifs/thematic elements, it was still lighter than the nonfiction depressing po
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