Every moment Eleanor is home is terrifying and claustrophobic - she shares a room with a mess of siblings and lives in constant fear of offending her abusive alcoholic stepfather, Richie. But you’ve never seen “Eleanor & Park.” Its observational precision and richness make for very special reading.Įleanor is a “big girl” with bright red hair (kids on the bus call her Big Red, and she describes herself as resembling a barmaid) who has just returned to her home in Omaha, after being kicked out for a year and forced to stay with acquaintances. There’s bullying, sibling rivalry, salvation through music and comics, a monstrous stepparent - and I know, we’ve seen all this stuff.
It’s set in 1986, and God knows I’ve seen that. I’ve seen the conventions, and I’ve seen them interrogated.īut I have never seen anything quite like “Eleanor & Park.” Rainbow Rowell’s first novel for young adults is a beautiful, haunting love story - but I have seen those. I’ve read a dozen “we brought back the dinosaurs and they are mad” books. Whether I was reading Michael Crichton or Amy Tan or Tom Robbins, there had never been anything like it before in my life.
Printz Honor Book for Excellence in Young Adult LiteratureĮleanor & Park is the winner of the 2013 Boston Globe Horn Book Award for Best Fiction Book.When I began reading contemporary fiction in high school, I remember feeling that each book was an absolute revelation. When Eleanor meets Park, you'll remember your own first love-and just how hard it pulled you under.Ī 2014 Michael L. Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits-smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. "Eleanor & Park reminded me not just what it's like to be young and in love with a girl, but also what it's like to be young and in love with a book."-John Green, The New York Times Book Reviewīono met his wife in high school, Park says.
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