It is comparatively easy to connect with the reader from that particular diaspora. We might think that it will be easy to write such a novel where the protagonist struggles to cope with the new place where she/he has to relocate. Jhumpa Lahiri, Kiran Desai, Colm Tóibín, and many other authors have written some outstanding books on this topic. The story of expatriates has always been an important topic that authors loved to write about. Will Ana be able to tackle all the obstacles in her new life in the USA? This book will give you the answer to it. To make matters worse, she falls into a love triangle with an American boy named Harrison and a Greek boy named Neo. She, unfortunately, struggles a lot in dealing with English in America.

She is also a poet and loves the Spanish language.

(Throwback Review) This novel tells us the story of Ana, who is a Sixteen-year-old who recently moved to New Jersey from Argentina. 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.

Love in english by maria e andreu