A spectacle among the other high school students, Eleanor stands out immediately with her unkempt red hair, androgynous gypsy wardrobe, and hardened exterior. In fact, Park wonders why the heroines from the pages of comics do more for him than the girls he’s actually kissed - until he meets Eleanor. He’s small, quiet, and slightly awkward, a little too feminine for his father’s taste. Park Sheridan is the only Asian kid in his neighborhood, and although he comes from a good family, he doesn’t fit in with anyone around him. “…this book is littered with extreme profanity and age-inappropriate subject matter that should never be put into the hands and minds of minor children.”Įleanor & Park follows the relationship of two misfit teenagers who fall in love over a series of comic book and mix-tape exchanges on a school bus.
Not only did they rescind Rowell’s invitation to speak, but also demanded that Eleanor & Park be removed from the libraries and requested disciplinary action against the librarians who selected it.Īnd what, exactly, makes the book “dangerously obscene?” From a review on Parents Action League: Unfortunately, those engagements were cancelled after the Anoka-Hennepin school district, county board, library board, and Parent’s Action League decided that the book was inappropriate. Not only was the novel an Amazon Best Book of the Month and a New York Times best seller, but it grabbed the attention of acclaimed author John Green ( The Fault in Our Stars), who wrote in his heartfelt review of the book that “ had never seen anything quite like Eleanor & Park.”Īnoka Country Library also recognized how special the story is and selected Rowell’s novel for their summer reading program, inviting the author to speak at Minneapolis-area schools and libraries this fall. Rainbow Rowell, author of the best-selling young adult novel Eleanor & Park, spoke with CBLDF regarding the recent controversy she faced when two parents managed to gain the support of a Minnesota school district and library board to cancel planned speaking engagements due to her “dangerously obscene” book.Įleanor & Park was released in early 2013, and the literary world fell in love.
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