SuitabookEleanor & Park
Rainbow Rowell
- Reading
- Consider reading alongside your teen, or checking in afterwards, particularly if language or the listed abuse and bullying themes warrant a conversation in your family.
- Themes
- First love and uncertainty: Eleanor and Park are described as outsiders who begin a relationship while aware that first love may not last. The premise makes the willingness to try part of the relationship’s appeal, but does not establish whether the novel ultimately celebrates, questions or complicates that choice.
- Bullying and abuse: These themes are listed for the novel, but the people, circumstances and extent involved are unspecified. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- Profanity and vulgar language are noted. Bullying and physical and emotional abuse are also listed as themes; how these appear and how prominently they feature are unclear.