Eleanor and Park: A Novel About Racism

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Eleanor and Park was lauded as a YA book that has diversity in it, but of course that can come with some criticisms depending on how that is depicted. "I wanted to spend a little time addressing it because I feel like because of that, and also maybe a little because she's not really like substantively addressed it in interviews or any follow-up," says author Andrew McCaffery.

This novel about a wizarding school and its teen magicians feels like the finale of a series that you've heard about but haven't read. Which is...sort of the point? Born out of an in-universe work of fan fiction from a different Rowell novel, Carry On provides a great opportunity to dig into what helps a story inspired by another story succeed.

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