Angel & Hannah
A Novel in Verse
The sweeping, unforgettable story of an interracial couple in 1990s New York City who are determined to protect their love against all odds a reimagining of Romeo and JulietTriumphant . . . sensuous, tender, and faceted like cut glass. Cathy Park Hong, award-winning author of Minor FeelingsHannah, a Korean American girl from Queens, New York, and Angel, a Puerto Rican boy from Brooklyn, fall in love in the spring of 1993 at a quinceañera:under a torn pink streamerloose as a tendril of hair lushhis eyes. Darkluminous. Warm. A blushfloods her. Hannah sucks in her breath, but can t pull back. Mu...
The sweeping, unforgettable story of an interracial couple in 1990s New York City who are determined to protect their love against all odds a reimagining of Romeo and Juliet
Triumphant . . . sensuous, tender, and faceted like cut glass. Cathy Park Hong, award-winning author of Minor Feelings
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 at a quinceañera:
under a torn pink streamer
loose as a tendril of hair lush
his eyes. Darkluminous. Warm. A blush
floods her. Hannah sucks in her breath, but
can t pull back. Music fades. A hush ~
he s a young buck in the underbrush,
still in a disco ball dance of shadow & light
Their forbidden love instantly and wildly blooms along the Jackie Robinson Expressway.
Told across the changing seasons, Angel & Hannah holds all of the tension and cadence of blank verse while adding dynamic and expressive language rooted in a long tradition of hip-hop and spoken word, creating new and magnetic forms. The poetry of Angel and Hannah s relationship is dynamic, arresting, observant, and magical, conveying the intimacies and sacrifices of love and family and the devastating realities of struggle and loss.
Triumphant . . . sensuous, tender, and faceted like cut glass. Cathy Park Hong, award-winning author of Minor Feelings
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 at a quinceañera:
under a torn pink streamer
loose as a tendril of hair lush
his eyes. Darkluminous. Warm. A blush
floods her. Hannah sucks in her breath, but
can t pull back. Music fades. A hush ~
he s a young buck in the underbrush,
still in a disco ball dance of shadow & light
Their forbidden love instantly and wildly blooms along the Jackie Robinson Expressway.
Told across the changing seasons, Angel & Hannah holds all of the tension and cadence of blank verse while adding dynamic and expressive language rooted in a long tradition of hip-hop and spoken word, creating new and magnetic forms. The poetry of Angel and Hannah s relationship is dynamic, arresting, observant, and magical, conveying the intimacies and sacrifices of love and family and the devastating realities of struggle and loss.
