He sits up, he smiles, he feels like something with wings take off from his chest. Or to say anything conclusive about the postcard – beyond that I think Eleanor wrote something hopeful.
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Wouldn’t it be lovely if Eleanor finally said, “I love you”?īut I can’t bring myself to confirm that interpretation. It’s the obvious answer – and it’s a happy answer. I knew Eleanor was going to send Park a postcard, and that it would be “just three words long.”Īnd I knew that readers would assume those three words were “I love you.” I want readers to assume that. I always knew, when I started Eleanor & Park, what the last line would be. But let's talk about this for a few minutes. I haven't even told my mom the three words. He's very happy in Saint Paul and lives an unusually long life for a cat. This is implied when Park notices that all signs of the kids are gone, even though Richie is still there. (My brother is literally named "Jerry.") What happened to Eleanor's family? What about her cat?Įleanor's mom and siblings all moved to Minnesota.
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(Like "Rainbow.") And then the parents decide to play it safer with younger kids. (It's a tradition in my family.) I was also thinking about how in lots of families, the oldest kid has a more unusual name. My backstory for Park's name was that "Park" is his mom's family name, and that his parents thought it would be nice for him to have both their names, “Park” and “Sheridan.” This is fairly common in American families - to use the mom's maiden name as the kid's first or middle name. ) Why does Park have a Korean family name as a first name? Like the other Fangirl characters, he's named after a building on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus. Levi's last name originally wasn't mentioned in the book, but so many people have asked that I decided to name him. IT'S STEWART. And she finished her fic, after the last Gemma Leslie novel came out. Did Cath kill Baz at the end of Fangirl?Ĭath finished her paper for class. Ĭory Doctorow digs into why Eleanor & Park is challenged, and why the book matters. Readers all over the world talk about Eleanor & Park in this NCAC video. Īnother interview, this one with the National Coalition Against Censorship It talks about why we need stories with hard things in them. This opinion piece was written by Linda Holmes of NPR. Here is an interview I did with The Toast the first time the book was challenged.
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If Eleanor & Park is being challenged in your school, you can get help and resources from the National Coalition Against Censorship. Yes, this book has been challenged in various school districts since it was published in 2013. Is it true that Eleanor & Park is a banned book? I currently have no plans for another Simon and Baz book - but obviously I love them a lot, and I can imagine revisiting them someday. Cath and Levi make an important cameo in my book Landline. And I gave Reagan, Cath’s roommate, her own short story - “If the Fates Allow.”And, of course, I've written an entire trilogy about Simon Snow. (I don't want to Jar Jar Binks myself!) And I know I'd disappoint somebody! It would be impossible to write a sequel that lives up to everyone's hopes and imaginations. I'd hate to disappoint readers who really love the characters. The success of the book has made the prospect of writing a sequel really intimidating. I always thought I would - I almost started it as soon as I finished Eleanor & Park. And now I sort of wish that I had. What are the three words at the end of Eleanor & Park?
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No, seriously - is that on your birth certificate?