This contemporary has a focus that I never heard of before, so that made me all the more excited to read it!Īna has moved to the United States from Argentina her junior year of high school. Hearing that there was a book that mostly focused on languages sounded a bit weird to me (and I say that as a former English minor), but when I read more about it, I knew I needed to get my hands on it. With playful and poetic breakouts exploring the idiosyncrasies of the English language, Love in English tells a story that is simultaneously charming and romantic, while articulating a deeper story about what it means to become “American.” And then there’s her new friend Neo, the Greek boy she’s partnered up with in ESL class, who she bonds with over the 80s teen movies they are assigned to watch for class (but later keep watching together for fun), and Altagracia, her artistic and Instagram-fabulous friend, who thankfully is fluent in Spanish and able to help her settle into American high school.īut is it possible that she’s becoming too American-as her father accuses-and what does it mean when her feelings for Harrison and Neo start to change? Ana will spend her year learning that the rules of English may be confounding, but there are no rules when it comes to love. She’s a poet and a lover of language-except that now, she can barely understand what’s going on around her, let alone find the words to express how she feels in the language she’s expected to speak.Īll Ana wants to do is go home-until she meets Harrison, the very cute, very American boy in her math class. Sixteen-year-old Ana has just moved to New Jersey from Argentina for her Junior year of high school. For Readers Interested In: Contemporary, Romance, Realistic Fiction, Coming of Age, YA
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