These add a different dimension to the exploration of these issues. It’s a weighted story of self, love, race, migration, belonging, ambition and family but told through a love story and which a landmark city as its backdrop.
Yoon added an alternative story of life in multicultural America told through a teenage love story. Even though the story is too romantic for my personal, there was artistry in the writing. Yoon is a brilliant writer with an experimental style. Turpin and Lee inhabit the main characters in such a way that ensures Yoon’s work will become essential listening. I recently got to listen to the audiobook, which was beautifully performed by Bahni Turpin, Raymond Lee, and Dominic Hoffman. Over a single day we watch how fate weaves its way into their relationship and their futures – together and apart. The Sun Is Also a Star, which is a finalist for the National Book Award, is told from the alternating perspectives of two teenagers – one a Korean American boy who is on the “doctor tract” despite his proclivity for poetry the other, a Jamaican girl who is desperately trying to save her family from their imminent deportation. Not only is Nicola Yoon answering the call for more diversity in YA Literature, she is also creating compelling, honest, and memorable characters in her fiction.
Thankfully my mom was around that day to watch the baby, because I couldn’t put it down. I was on maternity leave over the summer when I received an early copy of The Sun Is Also a Star.
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