Eleanor & Park Novel by Rainbow Rowell hardcover

"Bono met his wife in high school," Park says. "So did Jerry Lee Lewis," Eleanor answers. "I'm not kidding," he says. "You should be," she says, "we're 16." "What about Romeo and Juliet?" "Shallow, confused, then dead." "I love you," Park says. "Wherefore art thou," Eleanor answers. "I'm not kidding," he says. "You should be." Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is a beautifully-written love story about two high school outsiders. Told in the alternating perspectives of Eleanor and Park, it is a funny, thought-provoking and quirky tale of the ups and downs of first love. which readers will find easy to empathise with. #41,179 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #97 in Teen & Young Adult Fiction on Dating & Sex (Books) #115 in Teen & Young Adult Historical Romance #307 in Teen & Young Adult Contemporary Romance