Spotlight: Love in English by Maria Andreu

Hello Book Lovers, 

It is a Spotlight Day!! Today I bring you Love in English by Maria Andreu, available on February 2. The story is a "fresh, breakout YA novel that is layered with themes of immigration, cultural identity, and finding your voice in any language. "

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XOXO, 

Steph

Love in English by Maria Andreu
Hardback $18.99 | Ebook $10.99| Also available in audio
Publisher: Balzer + Bray

Publication Date: February 2, 2021

336 Pages

 

Synopsis:

The world may have many languages but the one that remains the same is love.

For Ana, a sixteen-year-old girl from Argentina, it’s the only way that she is able to be understood when she moves to New Jersey. Being unhappy in her new life, she struggles to find her place. From a new class schedule to new friends, she doesn’t feel like she fits in to a world that doesn’t “get” her. But as she tries to adjust to her new life, she finds herself falling in love with Harrison from her math class and Neo from ESL and realizes that the language of love is universal. When words seem to escape her and she can’t transcribe her thoughts, her heart and her love are what speak louder than she can. Love in English is a fresh, breakout YA novel that is layered with themes of immigration, cultural identity, and finding your voice in any language. Get a sneak peek inside of the book here!

Andreu has appeared in Newsweek, The Washington Post, NJ.com, and the Newark Star Ledger and her debut YA novel, The Secret Side of Empty (July 2015) is a Junior Library Guild Selection and a National Indie Excellence Book Award winner. 

 

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 Excerpted from LOVE IN ENGLISH by Maria E. Andreu, on sale February 2, 2021. Copyright © 2021 Maria E. Andreu. Reprinted with permission of HarperCollins Children’s Books.

About the Author 

Maria E. Andreu is a writer and author of the forthcoming Love in English (Balzer + Bray, 2021) as well as an as-yet untitled book (B+B, 2022) . Her work has appeared in Newsweek, The Washington Post, NJ.com, and the Newark Star Ledger. Her debut young adult novel, The Secret Side of Empty is a Junior Library Guild Selection, a National Indie Excellence Book Award winner, an International Latino Book Awards Finalist and has been called “captivating” by School Library Journal. Maria is Latinx and Argentinian-American and currently lives in New Jersey with her two children.

Maria’s interest in the immigration rights movement stems from her own childhood and adolescence experiences with being undocumented in the United States.  She obtained her U.S. citizenship thanks to the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.