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Rainbow rowell she never looked nice7/3/2023 But you’ve never seen “Eleanor & Park.” Its observational precision and richness make for very special reading.Įleanor is a “big girl” with bright red hair (kids on the bus call her Big Red, and she describes herself as resembling a barmaid) who has just returned to her home in Omaha, after being kicked out for a year and forced to stay with acquaintances. There’s bullying, sibling rivalry, salvation through music and comics, a monstrous stepparent - and I know, we’ve seen all this stuff. It’s set in 1986, and God knows I’ve seen that. I’ve seen the conventions, and I’ve seen them interrogated.īut I have never seen anything quite like “Eleanor & Park.” Rainbow Rowell’s first novel for young adults is a beautiful, haunting love story - but I have seen those. I’ve read a dozen “we brought back the dinosaurs and they are mad” books. Whether I was reading Michael Crichton or Amy Tan or Tom Robbins, there had never been anything like it before in my life. When I began reading contemporary fiction in high school, I remember feeling that each book was an absolute revelation.
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