Something about Natasha makes me think that fate has something much more extraordinary in store-for both of us. But when I see her, I forget about all that. Falling in love with him won’t be my story.ĭaniel: I’ve always been the good son, the good student, living up to my parents’ high expectations. Not when my family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica. I’m definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. Natasha: I’m a girl who believes in science and facts. I had no idea what I was getting into when I started it, but the book swept me away, immediately and completely. Overall, it’s a very cute story with certain heavy aspects that get readers on the edge of their seats, wondering if Natasha and Daniel will be able to beat the odds and stay together, despite forces pulling them in completely different life directions.Īlanah is a sophomore at Palisades Charter High School.The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon is the best book I’ve read all year. It also gets into the racial struggles that the characters must go through, Natasha’s race being a clear issue to Daniel’s father, who happens to run a Black hair care store, and the many issues that Daniel faces due to being Asian-American, including ones caused by his own brother Charles. It’s an interesting break from the regular narrative that lets readers know a little more about a character that briefly shows up in the main storyline, giving the readers a reminder that there are all these individual stories going on during the main one being told. Occasionally a perspective that isn’t Natasha’s or Daniel’s will show up. The story is told from the perspective of multiple characters, each chapter switching.

It’s a heartwarming story that shows how close two can become in just the span of a few hours, and the individual struggles of each character is shown as well. Following that encounter, they continue to spend time during the day together, poet Daniel trying to convince a ‘cold and calculating’ Natasha that love is indeed real.

They end up meeting inside a record store. The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon tells the story of Natasha Kingsley, an undocumented immigrant teenage girl who is about to be deported, and Daniel Bae, a boy about to go to an interview with Yale University, a school he doesn’t want to attend but does so in order to please his parents.

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