![]() ![]() 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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