My dear friend Eileen is walking across Spain and she posted an update that said she pretty much devoured this book while on this trek. I knew then that I had to run out and get a copy. I started this at 8am and by the end of the day I was done. I wasn't going to bed until I was done, I just needed to get to the last page of Eleanor & Park's story. I had to know where, what, how, they were...And I closed the book with so many feelings. Now the next morning I find myself missing them and wanting more.
The story of teen love isn't your typical cheesy, gooey love story. It is about the relationship that grows between this girl with big red hair and the half Korean half Irish boy who reads comic books. But it is also about how we see ourselves and how the outside world sees us, it is about the toxic things that can be happening behind closed doors that no one can or wants to talk about. It is about finding the person who grounds you to the world so your life and its pain doesn't make you float away, as insignificant as a piece of dust floating in a sunbeam.
Read this. NOW!!!
Then share it with someone.
(Finished September 3, 2014)
