
Nonetheless, Yoon went on to become a financial data programmer for investment firms. It wasn't until her senior college year, when she took a creative writing class, that she rediscovered her love of writing. As a child, she loved to write, starting when she was 8 or 9, yet by high school, she'd become a math nerd, and in college she majored in electrical engineering. Yoon's path to writing was a roundabout one. She grew up in Jamaica (the island) and Brooklyn (on Long Island). Nicola Yoon is the New York Times bestselling author of the young adult books Everything, Everything (2015) and The Sun Is Also a Star (2016). Currently-lives in Los Angeles, California.Raised-Jamaica Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA.Which one will come true? ( From the publisher.) Something about Natasha makes me think that fate has something much more extraordinary in store-for both of us.Įvery moment in our lives has brought us to this single moment. Or the dreamer.īut when I see her, I forget about all that. I’ve always been the good son, the good student, living up to my parents’ high expectations. Falling in love with him won’t be my story. Not when my family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica. I’m definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. I’m a girl who believes in science and facts.
