I reviewed the extraordinary new novel ELEANOR AND PARK in the New York Times Book Review

If you read a lot, you can get jaded. You can forget how a reader has to be generous to a book as much as a book has to be generous to its reader. You feel like maybe everything worth doing has been done, and nothing will ever blow you away ever again.

And then you read a book like Eleanor and Park, and you are shocked out of your complacency and grateful to be alive. As you can tell from my review in the New York Times Book Review, I really love this book. Months later, I’m still thinking about it.

You’re gonna love it, too. Read it. 

You can find it at indiebound, or bn.com, or amazon.

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    John Green was right. (Duh.) Eleanor and Park is brilliant. I read it so fast I devoured it, I over-ran my work breaks...
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