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My teenager had to read this book for school. She enjoyed it enough that she read it in a day or two and then passed it on to me. It's a delightful book with short chapters, multiple points of view and a sweet love story. It's also a glimpse of the lives of an immigrant and the son of immigrants. Their stories are a subtle reminder that not all immigrant tales are the same.
I loved the way this book showed time and again how one small event can have large ramifications. I loved the simple but bea ...more
I loved the way this book showed time and again how one small event can have large ramifications. I loved the simple but bea ...more
Love.
Books about love, the mushy-gushy, all-encompassing kind, are not for everyone. In my real life, I don't think I'm a particularly dreamy romantic. But this book...makes me believe in their joy. The narration alternates between our two main characters--a Jamaican immigrant and science enthusiast whose family is leaving the US tonight (under threat of deportation), and the second son of Korean immigrants who is on his way to a Yale interview that he doesn't really want-- who meet rather rand ...more
Books about love, the mushy-gushy, all-encompassing kind, are not for everyone. In my real life, I don't think I'm a particularly dreamy romantic. But this book...makes me believe in their joy. The narration alternates between our two main characters--a Jamaican immigrant and science enthusiast whose family is leaving the US tonight (under threat of deportation), and the second son of Korean immigrants who is on his way to a Yale interview that he doesn't really want-- who meet rather rand ...more
Just a truly charming and unique love story. This gets my #weneeddiversebooks pick for sure.
Beautiful
What a beautiful, eloquent story this is. I loved the alternating viewpoints, but ,more importantly, i loved what it says about love, family and being true to yourself
What a beautiful, eloquent story this is. I loved the alternating viewpoints, but ,more importantly, i loved what it says about love, family and being true to yourself
This is the teen-iest teen love story I've read in a long time.
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I absolutely loved this book. It was a beautiful story of immigrants, of love, of connection, of individual battle. I just, i loved this. It will make you feel things you don't expect.
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That was a good ending.
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