{"product_id":"9780593134320","title":"Angel \u0026 Hannah: A Novel in Verse","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brilliant novel-in-verse that does for \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRomeo and Juliet \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ewhat \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHamilton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e did for the American musical: the unforgettable love story of a striving interracial couple in the outer boroughs of New York City.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHannah, 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 quinceañera: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeyond flushed, sweating bodies pushed,\u003cbr\u003epushing like cattle below black \u0026amp; buzzing speakers, under a torn pink streamer loose as a tendril of hair—lush—\u003cbr\u003ehis eyes. Darkluminous. Warm. A blush floods her. \u003cbr\u003eHannah sucks in her breath, but can't pull back. \u003cbr\u003eMusic fades. A hush he's a young buck in the underbrush,\u003cbr\u003estill in a disco ball dance of shadow \u0026amp; light\u003cbr\u003eTheir forbidden love instantly and wildly blooms along the Jackie Robinson Expressway. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTold in seasons as opposed to Acts, this re-imagining of \u003ci\u003eRomeo and Juliet\u003c\/i\u003e holds all of the tension and cadence of blank verse while adding dynamic and expressive language, creating new kinds of engrossing and magnetic forms. The hip-hop sonnets and poems are dynamic, arresting, observant, and magical, conveying the intimacies and sacrifices of love and addiction and the devastating realities of struggle and loss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCommitted 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.","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012813504752,"sku":"9780593134320","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780593134320_p0.jpg?v=1763721321","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780593134320","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}