Eleanor & Park

i dont care what anyone else says about this book, i love it. I love Eleanor and i love Park. i started this book after school and I finished the book in tears the same night. its cringe at times and very disturbing at other, especially near the end/the climax. I was smiling and giggling while reading the parts where they were saying/thinking the same things but in their own chapters yk. i also felt more connected to the book because i could relate in some ways and maybe thats why i enjoyed it more than others but idk. there were also a few things about this book that seemed unbelievable but then i just think this was 1986 in Omaha Nebraska. I do feel like park could have been fleshed out w/ his relationship w/ his mom. There are also two black girls that become Eleanors friends and with park being half asian and agin this being 1986 in Omaha Nebraska, i figured there would be more discussion about racism. Really its kinda weird cuz this entire book is like how neither eleanor nor park fit in but they focussed more on how eleanor didnt fit in and not park or her black friends. I still thoroughly enjoyed this book.