When she listens to her music she is transported. Whereas Natasha is precise and reasons empirically, she’s also sensual. Daniel, the poet, sees Natasha on the street, not at his parents’ shop because she wears her hair in a huge Afro. The Sun is Also a Star (Delacorte 2016) by Nicola Yoon is told in the alternating voices of romantic Daniel and Natasha who thinks like a scientist. Despite the injustice and weirdness of this, it turns out that most black hair and beauty stores are owned and run by people from South Korea. They run an African American hair supply store. Daniel’s parents immigrated from Korea and had their children in the U.S. What a perfect cast for a love story! Natasha, 17, is slated to be deported from New York City with her family, back to Jamaica.
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