When Attachments came out and people liked it, I’d have a warm feeling of having made a connection. What’s it like to get this kind of reaction? The book has garnered a number of starred reviews, including from PW, as well as pre-publication buzz from bloggers. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they’re selling something that doesn’t exist. I want to consume love stories, but 90% of them feel totally inauthentic. And I also think that real life is more romantic if you allow it to be, if you don’t act like it’s immature to get excited. And if they’re older and they have, to feel it as a sense memory.Įmotions run high in the novel. If they’re young and never been in love, for them to know – yes, this how it feels. My motivation was to make people actually feel love, to give them a realistic view of it. She spoke with PW by phone from her home in Omaha – where Eleanor & Park, a love story about two outsiders, is set – about realistic romance, the power of music, and not being precious about writing.Įleanor & Park covers a lot of ground, from difficult family situations to the way music can open up a new world. Martin’s Griffin, Feb.), hits stores soon, and a second young adult novel is due out this fall. Her adult debut, Attachments, came out in 2011 her YA debut, Eleanor & Park (St.

Rainbow Rowell – yes, that is her real name – is having a good couple of years.

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