I used to enjoy this tremendously when I first read it because I thought that the romance was super cute and I loved how important the family relationships were in this one and have the abusive was explored but I was sad to learn quite recently that Eleanor & Park is full of racist stereotypes (I honestly don't know how I was so unaware of this during my initial read but well) and the portrayal of Park's "Koreaness" was just not cool. 
 I would like to link you to this article which examines the whole book in a very critical way and now that I've read it I have to agree: http://angrygirlcomics.tumblr.com/pos...