Angel and Hannah

“Let me whisper you a story.”
A brilliant novel-in-verse that does for Romeo and Juliet what Hamilton did for the American musical: the unforgettable love story of a striving interracial couple in the outer boroughs of New York City.
Hannah, a Korean American girl from Queens, New York, and Angel, a Puerto Rican boy from Brooklyn, fall in love in the spring of 1993. Hannah, who comes from a strict Korean home, meets Angel, a free and beautiful boy, at a quinceañera:
Beyond flushed, sweating bodies pushed,
pushing like cattle below black & buzzing speakers, under a torn pink streamer
loose as a tendril of hair–lush–
his eyes. Darkluminous. Warm. A blush floods her.
Hannah sucks in her breath, but can’t pull back.
Music fades. A hush
he’s a young buck in the underbrush…