Angel & Hannah
by Ishle Yi Park
The sweeping, unforgettable story of an interracial couple in 1990s New York City who are determined to protect their love against all odds—a reimagining of Romeo and Juliet“Triumphant . . . sensuous, tender, and faceted like cut glass.”—Cathy Park Hong, award-winning author of Minor FeelingsHannah, a Korean American girl from Queens, New York, and Angel, a Puerto Rican boy from Brooklyn, fall in love in the spring of 1993 at a quinceañera: under a torn pink streamerloose as a tendril of hair—lush—his eyes. Darkluminous. Warm. A blushfloods her. Hannah sucks in her breath, but can’t pull back. Music fades. A hush ~he’s a young buck in the underbrush,still in a disco ball dance of shadow & lightTheir forbidden love instantly and wildly blooms along the Jackie Robinson Expressway. Told across the changing...