The Sun Is Also a Star
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?
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Natasha Kingsley is seventeen and out of options. Her family is being deported from New York to Jamaica the next morning, and she has one afternoon to find a way to stay. On the same Manhattan day, Korean American senior Daniel Bae is on his way to a Yale interview and meets her in a record store.
Yes. A 2019 film adaptation directed by Ry Russo-Young and starring Yara Shahidi and Charles Melton was released. The film follows the novel's 24-hour New York romance.
Yes. The Sun Is Also a Star is YA contemporary, suitable for readers 13 and up. There is no explicit content. The novel was a National Book Award finalist for Young People's Literature.
The Sun Is Also a Star was written by Nicola Yoon, published in 2016 by SM.
The Sun Is Also a Star is 384 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Sun Is Also a Star takes most readers 6 to 8 hours to finish.
The Sun Is Also a Star is a standalone novel by Nicola Yoon, not part of a series.
The Sun Is Also a Star is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
