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Review: 'The Sun Is Also A Star' believes that love is the answer

It's an open secret in publishing that young-adult fiction has gone viral because card-carrying adults as well as younger folks are drawn to the genre's purity of emotions and directness of action.

In the cinematic universe, the "Twilight" and "Hunger Games" franchises have benefited from that phenomenon, and now the sweet-natured but potent "The Sun Is Also a Star" is poised to join the list.

Based on a massively popular YA novel by Nicola Yoon, "Sun" unapologetically embraces deep-dish

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