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. You will pick up the novel with curiosity and put it down with a better understanding of what it’s like to find your voice in a language that you don’t speak.Ī copy of this book was provided by the publisher, Balzer + Bray, for review.Sixteen-year-old Ana has just moved to New Jersey from Argentina for her Junior year of high school. It’s a pleasure to accompany Ana on her journey. Ana’s interactions with her family, old friends, and new friends illuminate the challenges and rewards of growing up in a new environment. Throw into the mix a teenage girl who can barely speak English to communicate with a love and talent for poetry, and readers are taken on a beautiful and challenging journey layered with art, heartache, joy, confusion, realization, and self-discovery.
Going through high school is tough for any teenager. This book will melt out of your hand and into your heart as your mind becomes one with Ana’s thoughts and actions. You will follow her teenage soul-searching journey while searching for the right words in English. Readers are treated with a three-dimensional character who speaks from real experience. Ana’s thoughts are filled with rich complexity. Andreu shares with the readers that she herself went through an experience similar to Ana’s. It makes me feel disloyal… to my friends and family back home, like somehow my life with them was something that needed bettering… There’s a different word I would choose.īefore chapter one of Love in English begins, author Maria E.
It’s only five words, but such a big question… I have learned enough English to know the answer is “a better life.” It’s what teachers say… But better life is not quite right. Through ESL classes, tutoring, and a newfound Spanish-speaking friend, Ana goes through the school year learning what it means to live and grow up in America.
Starting her third year of high school, Ana is no longer the child he knew. Ana’s dad has lived in America for three years and is finally joined by his wife and daughter. This is something 16-year-old Argentina native Ana quickly finds out. “Who would eat crow or eat their heart out?”Įnglish can be a confusing language.
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