Name: Angel and Hannah
ISBN: 9780593134320

Ishle Yi Park

"Hannah, a Korean American girl from Queens, New York, and Angel, a Puerto Rican boy from Brooklyn, fall in love in the spring of 1993. Hannah, who comes from a strict Korean home, meets Angel, a free and beautiful boy, at a quinceaänera... Committed to cultural details and the vernacular of Queens and Brooklyn, this is a hip-hop love story, not of the Capulets and the Montagues, but two New York City kids trying to survive and grow within their families and communities, driven by an all-consuming love"--

A Novel in Verse

Angel and Hannah

I’m at a loss for how much I should be taking each poem as a functional part of the narrative vs. an individual poem. The narrative was interesting, but I enjoyed some poems more than others. As a narrative though, I found it to be a pretty fresh retelling of R&J, and I felt quite attached to Angel and Hannah.

Carmen

Elizabeth Moore

Oh my god I loved this. How beautiful and searing it is. This is poetry for people who are afraid of or don’t think they like poetry. It isn’t easy or cheesy, but it isn’t aloof or above you. It’ll hit right at your core, and everything the writer wants you to know and feel is available to you if you slow down and let it in.

What a gorgeous and ugly and stark and lush tale about growing up and first love, and the 90s Queens-to-Brooklyn setting is just perfect. Lovedddd.

Angel and Hannah A Novel in Verse

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