Rowell's romance writing is second to none - her characters are flawed, lovable, and superbly drawn, and their attraction to one another is simultaneously intense and chaste. Park takes mercy on her and makes room for her, and the two ride in silence, day after day, as seatmates.Īs romance blossoms for Eleanor and Park, the terrifying abuse in Eleanor's home also ramps up, with palpable danger not just for Eleanor, but for her beloved (but fatally compromised) mother, and her small, vulnerable siblings.
They are thrown together when Eleanor moves back in with her mother and stepfather, and faces naked hostility as she boards the schoolbus for the first time. I was there, and got a copy of the novel, and have read nothing since, and now that I've finished it, I find myself profoundly moved.Įleanor & Park is told as a series of very short vignettes alternating the points of view of Eleanor, a fat, redheaded, awkward teenaged girl who lives with four siblings and an abusive, alcoholic, snake-mean stepfather and Park, a biracial Korean-American kid who uses his love of alternative music and comics to shut out the taunting bullies in his school. Last week, the National Coalition Against Censorship honored Rainbow Rowell for her refusal to be back down on the frequent challenges to her multiple-award-winning, bestselling 2013 novel Eleanor & Park.
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