Over a single New York day, two teenagers who were never supposed to meet keep meeting. Natasha Kingsley, who trusts science and evidence, has hours left before her undocumented Jamaican family is deported, and she is spending the day chasing one last legal chance to stay. Daniel Bae, the dutiful second son of Korean immigrants, is on his way to a Yale interview he does not want, resisting the medical future his parents have scripted while privately writing poetry. A chain of small accidents brings them together, and Daniel — who believes in fate and in koi no yokan, the premonition of love — sets out to make Natasha fall for him by scientific method before her time runs out. Yoon alternates their first-person voices with brief chapters from the universe itself: histories of hair, of a security guard, of a word, of the people brushing past them, so that a one-day romance becomes a meditation on migration, family expectation and how strangers' lives interlock. A National Book Award finalist and number-one New York Times bestseller, the novel was later filmed.
Author: Nicola Yoon · Original publisher: Delacorte Press (New York), 2016
