The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Status: Available for Free Download
- Author: Nicola Yoon
- Publish Date: March 5, 2019
- ISBN: 0553496719
- Size: 13 MB
- Pages: 384
- Genre: Teen & Young Adult Fiction about New Experiences, Teen & Young Adult Fiction about Emotions & Feelings, Teen & Young Adult Contemporary Romance,
- Price: Free
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Local Teen Accepts Destiny, Agrees to Become Doctor, Stereotype
It’s Charlie’s fault that my summer (and now fall) has been one absurd
headline after another. Charles Jae Won Bae, aka Charlie, my older brother,
firstborn son of a firstborn son, surprised my parents (and all their friends,
and the entire gossiping Korean community of Flushing, New York) by
getting kicked out of Harvard University (Best School, my mother said, when
his acceptance letter arrived). Now he’s been kicked out of Best School, and
all summer my mom frowns and doesn’t quite believe and doesn’t quite
understand.
Why you grades so bad? They kick you out? Why they kick you out? Why
not make you stay and study more?
My dad says, Not kick out. Require to withdraw. Not the same as kick out.
Charlie grumbles: It’s just temporary, only for two semesters.
Under this unholy barrage of my parents’ confusion and shame and
disappointment, even I almost feel bad for Charlie. Almost.
NATASHA
MY MOM SAYS IT’S TIME for me to give up now, and that what I’m doing
is futile. She’s upset, so her accent is thicker than usual, and every statement
is a question.
“You no think is time for you to give up now, Tasha? You no think that
what you doing is futile?”
She draws out the first syllable of futile for a second too long. My dad
doesn’t say anything. He’s mute with anger or impotence. I’m never sure
which. His frown is so deep and so complete that it’s hard to imagine his face
with another expression. If this were even just a few months ago, I’d be sad to
see him like this, but now I don’t really care. He’s the reason we’re all in this
mess.
Peter, my nine-year-old brother, is the only one of us happy with this turn
of events. Right now, he’s packing his suitcase and playing “No Woman, No
Cry” by Bob Marley. “Old-school packing music,” he called it.
Despite the fact that he was born here in America, Peter says he wants to
live in Jamaica. He’s always been pretty shy and has a hard time making
friends. I think he imagines that Jamaica will be a paradise and that,
somehow, things will be better for him there.
The four of us are in the living room of our one-bedroom apartment. The
living room doubles as a bedroom, and Peter and I share it. It has two small
sofa beds that we pull out at night, and a bright blue curtain down the middle
for privacy. Right now the curtain is pulled aside so you can see both our
halves at once.
It’s pretty easy to guess which one of us wants to leave and which wants to
stay. My side still looks lived-in. My books are on my small IKEA shelf. My
favorite picture of me and my best friend, Bev, is still sitting on my desk.
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