Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
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.
Hardcover, 328 pages
Published February 26th 2013 by St. Martin's Press (first published April 12th 2012)
My Review:
What a sweet book about first love! This book makes you FEEL and remember all the stirrings of young love and how wonderful , confusing and embarrassing it can be all at one time. Park and Eleanor are misfits at their school- he being part Korean and her being new and big with weird clothes and big red hair. They end up sitting by each other on the bus and their relationship blossoms from there slowly and awkwardly and then deeply and just beautifully. He is her champion in every way. Her life as terrible and poverty stricken as it is becomes good with him in her life.
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