Yoon - The Sun Is Also a Star
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Text copyright 2016 by Nicola Yoon
Cover art by Dominique Falla
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Childrens Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
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Quote copyright 1994 Carl Sagan. Reprinted with permission from Democritus Properties, LLC. All rights reserved. This material cannot be further circulated without written permission of Democritus Properties, LLC.
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ISBN9780553496680 (hc) ISBN9780553496697 (lib. bdg.) ebook ISBN9780553496703 ISBN9781524716301 (intl. tr. pbk.)
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For my mom and dad, who taught me about dreams and how to catch them
It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little about it.
Pale Blue Dot, Carl Sagan
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T. S. Eliot
CARL SAGAN SAID that if you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. When he says from scratch, he means from nothing. He means from a time before the world even existed. If you want to make an apple pie from nothing at all, you have to start with the Big Bang and expanding universes, neutrons, ions, atoms, black holes, suns, moons, ocean tides, the Milky Way, Earth, evolution, dinosaurs, extinction-level events, platypuses, Homo erectus, Cro-Magnon man, etc. You have to start at the beginning. You must invent fire. You need water and fertile soil and seeds. You need cows and people to milk them and more people to churn that milk into butter. You need wheat and sugar cane and apple trees. You need chemistry and biology. For a really good apple pie, you need the arts. For an apple pie that can last for generations, you need the printing press and the Industrial Revolution and maybe even a poem.
To make a thing as simple as an apple pie, you have to create the whole wide world.
Its Charlies 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 hes been kicked out of Best School, and all summer my mom frowns and doesnt quite believe and doesnt 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: Its 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.
MY MOM SAYS ITS TIME for me to give up now, and that what Im doing is futile. Shes 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 doesnt say anything. Hes mute with anger or impotence. Im never sure which. His frown is so deep and so complete that its hard to imagine his face with another expression. If this were even just a few months ago, Id be sad to see him like this, but now I dont really care. Hes the reason were all in this mess.
Peter, my nine-year-old brother, is the only one of us happy with this turn of events. Right now, hes 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. Hes 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.
Its 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. Were wearing safety goggles and sexy-pouting at the camera in physics lab. The safety goggles were my idea. The sexy-pouting was hers. I havent removed a single item of clothing from my dresser. I havent even taken down my NASA star map poster. Its hugeactually eight posters that I taped togetherand shows all the major stars, constellations, and sections of the Milky Way visible from the Northern Hemisphere. It even has instructions on how to find Polaris and navigate your way by stars in case you get lost. The poster tubes I bought for packing it are leaning unopened against the wall.
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