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heartwarming ya novel
This is written in the form of letters that two girls send back and forth to one another. One of the girls is in the present and the other is in the past. Each chapter is a letter.
It's a really lovely little YA novel that I'd recommend to anyone looking to start reading novels. The story is very contained around a small set of characters (the main character, her dad, her dad's girlfriend and the girl she is writting letters to) and very tightly follows one specific storyline so even if you are having to look up quite a lot of words you don't need to follow too many plot threads.
The structure of each chapter being a letter makes it particularly easy for learners to follow.
The language is written in the style of a teenage girl chatting to another so it often uses the tone of casual spoken language but it's not full of slang or dialect so it's not difficult to get into.
There are some cultural things mentioned that I had to look up 1980s student protests, terror attack during the Seoul Olympics etc but overall the story was quite easy to follow.