![]() ![]() 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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