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    'Love Is A Thing That Everyone Wants,' Says Author Of 'The Sun Is Also A Star'

    A Jamaican teen threatened with deportation falls in love over the course of a single day in the film adaptation of Nicola Yoon's bestselling young adult romance novel.
    by CHRISTABEL NSIAH-BUADI May 17, 2019 2 minutes
    Natasha (Yara Shahidi) and Daniel (Charles Melton) fall in love over the course of a single day in the film adaptation of Nicola Yoon's young adult romance novel <em>The Sun Is Also a Star.</em>

    "What does America mean to you?" That's a question Natasha Kingsley, threatened with deportation, must answer in The Sun Is Also a Star, a film adapted from the young adult novel of the same name by Nicola Yoon.

    Yoon has also thought a lot about this question. Like Natasha, she moved from Jamaica to America with her family when she was a kid because her

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