There is something so completely adorable and real and very quirky about Eleanor & Park that made it so I could just absolutely not put the book down until I had finished it the next day after I bought it. 
 It's really quirky, and really different. Set in the late eighties, about two teenagers from very different homes and very different up-bringings. Eleanor isn't the usual sweet, pretty, petite book protagonist. She's a little overweight, bigger, with a frizz of red hair and an attitude that has you laughing at her in some parts, and sympathizing in others. And Park also, is not your usual YA male lead. No blue eyes or tall build or broad shoulders here. He's smaller, a little shorter, half-Korean. Nerdier. 
 But it works in the book. Eleanor and Park may not be like all of the other YA couples out there and neither of them are always very likable but Park thinks Eleanor is beautiful regardless, and vise versa. 
 My only issue with the book is that I imagined them so much younger! I don't know what it was, but I could not see them as sixteen year olds no matter how hard I tried to get it into my mind. 
 Other than that this book is going on my favorites shelf. It's not always happy, but it's such a sweet story. If you haven't read it yet, go buy it right now.