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Eleanor & Park

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two misfits, one extraordinary love eleanor ...Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Lying beside him until he wakes up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough....Eleanor park ...He knows she'll love a song before he plays it for her. He laughs at her jokes before she ever gets to the punch line. There's a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes her want to keep promises...Park  Those are the sentences on the back of this novel. This novel is written by Rainbow Rowell, by the way. You can visit her website here .  This is a story about a girl named Eleanor Douglas and a boy named Park Sheridan, obviously. Eleanor is a fat American girl, though I don't know how fat. I imagined her just like a fatter version  of Merida from the movie Brave, because, well, she (Eleanor, not Merida) described as "Betty Boop drawn with a heavy hand" and she also had "bright red, on top of