The Sun Is Also a Star
Nicola Yoon, 2016
Romance Young adultContemporary fiction
Two teenagers meet in New York on the last day one of them may stay in the country — a novel about coincidence, science, and the case for love. A single-day New York romance that moves with witty, lyrical urgency, carrying longing and hope through chance meetings and scientific musings.
Feels like longing and hope. About love and freedom.
Who it’s for
You may like it if you enjoy YA romance that mixes big feelings with questions about science, coincidence, and belonging. Because the relationship unfolds over one urgent day, readers who want a slowly built, months-long courtship may find the pace hard to settle into.
Why read it
It offers a warm, witty look at how chance encounters can matter, and at what love and belonging mean when time is short.
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A word for the feeling that someone is already your future.
There’s a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn’t mean love at first sight. It’s closer to love at second sight. It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it’s inevitable that you will. Nicola Yoon.Nicola Yoon was born in Jamaica to Jamaican and Korean parents and moved to Brooklyn as a child; her debut, Everything, Everything, appeared in 2015 and was later filmed.
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Questions readers ask
- Is The Sun Is Also a Star for me?
- You may like it if you enjoy YA romance that mixes big feelings with questions about science, coincidence, and belonging. Because the relationship unfolds over one urgent day, readers who want a slowly built, months-long courtship may find the pace hard to settle into.
- What is The Sun Is Also a Star like?
- A single-day New York romance that moves with witty, lyrical urgency, carrying longing and hope through chance meetings and scientific musings. Feels like longing and hope. About love and freedom.
- What should I read after The Sun Is Also a Star?
- If you liked The Sun Is Also a Star, try Where She Went (Gayle Forman), The Selection (Kiera Cass) and The Lucky One (Nicholas Sparks).
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What you'd pay again, knowing exactly what it costs.
But I’d do it again. I know that now. I’d make that promise a thousand times over and lose her a thousand times over to have heard her play last night or to see her in the morning sunlight. Or even without that. Just to know that she’s somewhere out there. Alive.
Where She Went · Gayle Forman
A blessing for love that doubles as a warning.
I hope you find someone you can’t live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it’s like to have to try and live without them.
The Selection · Kiera Cass
When you stop hearing from someone, what story do you tell yourself?
Every now and then, I’d meet a guy and think that we were getting along great, and suddenly I’d stop hearing from him. Not only did he stop calling, but if I happened to bump into him sometime later he always acted like I had the plague. I didn’t understand it. I still don’t. And it bothered me. It hurt me. With time, it got harder and harder to keep blaming the guys, and I eventually came to the conclusion that there was something wrong with me. That maybe I was simply meant to live my life alone.
The Lucky One · Nicholas Sparks
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