Eleanor & Park
## Two misfits. One extraordinary love. ## ---------- ## Eleanor ## ...Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Lying beside him until he wakes up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough... Eleanor. ## Park ## ...He knows she'll love a song before he plays it for her. He laughs at her jokes before she ever gets to the punch line. There's a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes her want to keep promises... Park. ---------- Set over the course of one school year, this is the story of two star-crossed sixteen-year-olds -- smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.
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In 1986 Omaha, new girl Eleanor Douglas, redhead and outcast, sits beside Park Sheridan on the school bus on her first day. Over a year of comics and mixtapes shared in the seat, the two of them fall in love.
Eleanor & Park was written by Rainbow Rowell and published in 2013. It was Rowell's breakthrough YA novel and helped establish the wave of contemporary realistic YA romance in the 2010s.
Yes. Eleanor & Park has been challenged in some American schools, primarily for language and references to abuse. It remains widely read and is on many YA recommended-reading lists.
Eleanor & Park is 336 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Eleanor & Park takes most readers 5 to 7 hours to finish.
Eleanor & Park is a standalone novel by an unknown author, not part of a series.
Eleanor & Park is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
