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# 4.5/5 Star Rating Multicultural, Immigrant Themes Top 60K Bestseller The Sun is also a Star: Nicola Yoon

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> 🌟 Fall in love with a story that’s as urgent as today’s headlines.

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## Key Features

- • **A Story That Bridges Worlds:** Explores immigrant experiences with rich, authentic multicultural perspectives.
- • **Critically Acclaimed & Loved:** Over 12,500 reviews averaging 4.5 stars—readers can’t stop recommending it.
- • **A Bestseller That Speaks Volumes:** Ranked #60,152 overall and top 10 in immigration & family fiction for YA readers.
- • **Emotionally Gripping & Thoughtful:** Delivers a powerful narrative on love, fate, and societal pressures in just one day.
- • **Perfect for the Socially Conscious Millennial:** Fosters empathy and understanding across generations and cultures—join the conversation.

## Overview

Nicola Yoon’s 'The Sun is Also a Star' is a critically acclaimed young adult novel that masterfully blends themes of immigration, family expectations, and young love. With a 4.5-star rating from over 12,500 readers and top rankings in multiple YA fiction categories, this book offers a compelling, emotionally rich narrative set against the vibrant backdrop of New York City. It’s a must-read for millennials seeking stories that resonate with cultural complexity and heartfelt humanity.

## Description

*Now a major film starring Yara Shahidi and Charles Melton* The New York Times bestselling love story from Nicola Yoon, author of Everything, Everything. Natasha: I’m a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. 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. Not when my family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica. Falling in love with him won’t be my story. Daniel: I’ve always been the good son, the good student, living up to my parents’ high expectations. Never the poet. Or the dreamer. But when I see her, I forget about all that. Something about Natasha makes me think that fate has something much more extraordinary in store―for both of us. The Universe: Every moment in our lives has brought us to this single moment. A million futures lie before us. Which one will come true?

Review: An uplifting celebration of love, humanity and immigration. - This novel begins as a simple tale about a girl who believes in science who meets a poet who claims he can make her love him by the end of the day. Natasha has time to kill – she and her Jamaican family will be deported in just twelve hours time – so she explores the streets of New York with Daniel, meeting his Korean family and answering his lover’s quiz. Both characters are funny and likeable and as the narrative viewpoint alternates between them, we learn what it means to grow up as an immigrant in America, trapped between your parents expectations and the prejudices of society. But what transforms this book into something truly special is the omniscient narrator who dips in and out to give us fleeting but powerful insights into the lives that briefly touch our two young lovers: the grieving driver who nearly knocks them over, the bitter and heart-broken waitress who serves them, the conflicted lawyer who tries to help. Unusually for a YA book, we are also given the perspective of both parents, so instead of being allowed to dismiss them as ‘the bad guys’ we are exposed to the pain of their own broken dreams. Nicola Yoon writes with a delicate hand so that whilst the conceit at the heart of the story (just one day to fall in love) might seem far-fetched it felt believable to me. Written with great wisdom and tenderness, this book is not just a celebration of love, it is a celebration of humanity, with all our flaws and weaknesses. As well as being a funny and uplifting story, The Sun is also a Star will help promote understanding and empathy between different races and generations at a time when we need this most. Nicola Yoon should feel incredibly proud of herself for writing this perfect little gem and I cannot wait to read Everything, Everything by the same author.
Review: Narrator perfection - I love a YA love story, yes they can be a little Insta-love, but they are great, you can get lost in a fabulous book for a few hours, and when you look up, all is right with the world! This story is about a girl called Natasha, who is basically living in NYC illegally, her parents moved to America from Jamaica and never returned, they have been working, but a silly mistake by her father has now brought the authorities aware of their situation and the family are now being deported back to Jamaica. Natasha is obviously very upset by this, she came to America when she was very young so she thinks of it as home, she has never even been to Jamaica and has no desire to go there again, her school and friends are here, and she is looking forward to going to college, so she finds the one person that she thinks may be able to help her stay, a lawyer. Daniel is our other MC in this book, he is a Korean American boy, who is legal. His parents moved to the US many years before he was born. His parents are very strict and like him to be as Korean as he can. Daniel is about to go for an interview for a place in Yale, somewhere he doesn’t particularly want to go, but his parents (mainly his father) have pushed him into it, Daniel wants to be a poet. A ‘meet-cute’ happens, and the two meet and decide to spend the day together, Daniel does not know about Natasha’s situation. I loved the fact that this was not only told in dual POV, but it also goes into the background of some of the other characters so that you can see why they are the way that they are (if that makes sense) Because Natasha is Black and Daniel is Korean I loved the way that they explain their different cultures etc to each other, and that it wasn’t just fluffy ‘I love You’s’ in fact Natasha doesn’t believe in all that, she is a science geek, it is actually Daniel that is a hopeless romantic. I LOVED the ending, it was done so perfectly, i’m not sure if I would have liked it any other way! 🎧🎧 – Narrated as always beautifully by Bahni Turpin with Raymond Lee and Dominic Hoffman who are 2 new narrators for me, but made this book sound so good.

## Features

- Random House Children's Books
- Condition : Good
- Comes with Proper Binding

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 192,753 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 17 in Fiction About Emigration, Immigration & Refugees for Young Adults 30 in Fiction About Multigenerational Families for Young Adults 76 in Young Adult Nonfiction on Prejudice |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 12,543 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An uplifting celebration of love, humanity and immigration.
*by J***N on 14 February 2017*

This novel begins as a simple tale about a girl who believes in science who meets a poet who claims he can make her love him by the end of the day. Natasha has time to kill – she and her Jamaican family will be deported in just twelve hours time – so she explores the streets of New York with Daniel, meeting his Korean family and answering his lover’s quiz. Both characters are funny and likeable and as the narrative viewpoint alternates between them, we learn what it means to grow up as an immigrant in America, trapped between your parents expectations and the prejudices of society. But what transforms this book into something truly special is the omniscient narrator who dips in and out to give us fleeting but powerful insights into the lives that briefly touch our two young lovers: the grieving driver who nearly knocks them over, the bitter and heart-broken waitress who serves them, the conflicted lawyer who tries to help. Unusually for a YA book, we are also given the perspective of both parents, so instead of being allowed to dismiss them as ‘the bad guys’ we are exposed to the pain of their own broken dreams. Nicola Yoon writes with a delicate hand so that whilst the conceit at the heart of the story (just one day to fall in love) might seem far-fetched it felt believable to me. Written with great wisdom and tenderness, this book is not just a celebration of love, it is a celebration of humanity, with all our flaws and weaknesses. As well as being a funny and uplifting story, The Sun is also a Star will help promote understanding and empathy between different races and generations at a time when we need this most. Nicola Yoon should feel incredibly proud of herself for writing this perfect little gem and I cannot wait to read Everything, Everything by the same author.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Narrator perfection
*by V***S on 18 April 2019*

I love a YA love story, yes they can be a little Insta-love, but they are great, you can get lost in a fabulous book for a few hours, and when you look up, all is right with the world! This story is about a girl called Natasha, who is basically living in NYC illegally, her parents moved to America from Jamaica and never returned, they have been working, but a silly mistake by her father has now brought the authorities aware of their situation and the family are now being deported back to Jamaica. Natasha is obviously very upset by this, she came to America when she was very young so she thinks of it as home, she has never even been to Jamaica and has no desire to go there again, her school and friends are here, and she is looking forward to going to college, so she finds the one person that she thinks may be able to help her stay, a lawyer. Daniel is our other MC in this book, he is a Korean American boy, who is legal. His parents moved to the US many years before he was born. His parents are very strict and like him to be as Korean as he can. Daniel is about to go for an interview for a place in Yale, somewhere he doesn’t particularly want to go, but his parents (mainly his father) have pushed him into it, Daniel wants to be a poet. A ‘meet-cute’ happens, and the two meet and decide to spend the day together, Daniel does not know about Natasha’s situation. I loved the fact that this was not only told in dual POV, but it also goes into the background of some of the other characters so that you can see why they are the way that they are (if that makes sense) Because Natasha is Black and Daniel is Korean I loved the way that they explain their different cultures etc to each other, and that it wasn’t just fluffy ‘I love You’s’ in fact Natasha doesn’t believe in all that, she is a science geek, it is actually Daniel that is a hopeless romantic. I LOVED the ending, it was done so perfectly, i’m not sure if I would have liked it any other way! 🎧🎧 – Narrated as always beautifully by Bahni Turpin with Raymond Lee and Dominic Hoffman who are 2 new narrators for me, but made this book sound so good.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ So amazing that it brought tears to my eyes for literally no reason!
*by Y***N on 8 September 2018*

The Sun Is Also a Star, is a touching story about two teenagers who deserve the chance to get to know each other, but risk having it ripped away from them before it’s even really begun. The novel takes place in New York City, where Natasha is on a mission to save her family from being deported back to Jamaica. On her journey she meets Daniel, who, due to a combination of bizarre and seemingly meant-to-be moments, notices her from afar and feels that he must get to know her. Over the course of their day, Daniel tries to undermine Natasha’s belief that both love and fate aren’t real, and that science explains everything. It’s a beautiful read, consistently making me want to laugh and cry, and question my own opinions in regard to how the universe works. Firstly, I’d like to mention that the cover art for this book is absolutely stunning. Upon finishing it, I understood its meaning immediately: that every second, different people, things and circumstances are all brought together, and they clash to create an outburst of consequences that have a huge impact on the rest of our lives. We make hundreds of decisions every single day, and each of these decisions leads to a different future where hundreds of more decisions lie. The outcome depends on which route we take. The cover and the novel, both encourage readers to think about everything they do with an open mind, and to be careful with how we effect other people’s journeys. Leading on from that, I love how every event in the novel was interlinked with another, how every person we were introduced to either had a hand in how Daniel and Natasha’s lives played out, or vice-versa. It shows how even saying one kind (or rude) word to a stranger can influence them to make a huge life-changing decision. The novel also dealt well with racism and how young people cope with having extremely prejudice parents. Daniel’s father’s disrespect towards Natasha and his embarrassment, I felt was written incredibly well and worked towards giving the characters more dimension. It’s realistic to write, not only about two characters who are both considered minorities in Twenty-First Century America, but who also don’t conform to the stereotypes placed on them. Daniel’s issues with his Korean parents wanting what’s best for him instead of what makes him happiest, and Natasha’s father wanting what’s best for himself instead of what’s best for his family, gives them common ground which many readers will be able to identify with. Yoon portrays realistic family dynamics in showing that they are complicated and hardly ever perfect. Although I loved The Sun Is Also a Star, the reason I’m not giving it five stars, is that it was a little hard to get into. I think this was because the chapters started off very short and kept switching perspectives, however I understand that this was necessary to get the whole concept across. More into the middle I began to enjoy the short chapters because they gave us access to what each character was thinking in any particular moment. Something else that bothered me, was Natasha’s personality. As brutal as that sounds, she was a bit hard to like because of her pessimistic nature and how rude she was to Daniel at times, but as the story went on and he warmed her heart, she was much easier to read. The ending was absolutely amazing – so amazing that it brought tears to my eyes for literally no reason! I wholeheartedly recommend this book as it really can change your entire viewpoint on the world and our day-to-day lives. 4 stars to Nicola Yoon’s, The Sun Is Also a Star. Brilliant.

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