![]() For Park, however, music is less an escape and more a way of being even more present in the world and in his own skin. Through music, she can feel farther from herself-but closer to Park. Eleanor’s home life is a mess, and listening to the music Park curates for her is her only chance at escaping her needy siblings, her fawning, battered mother Sabrina, and her cruel stepfather Richie. ![]() Park begins making mix tapes for Eleanor and bringing her batteries so that she won’t run out of juice while she listens at home each night to songs he’s chosen for her. When Eleanor expresses frustration with the comics, though, the two begin talking about music-and find that they never run out of feelings to discuss and bond over when it comes to the punk, new-wave, and shoegaze anthems of the mid-80s they so love. Slowly and wordlessly, Park begins allowing Eleanor to read with him, and then brings her comic books of her own to read. ![]() When Eleanor and Park first start interacting on the bus to school, they bond over comic books as Eleanor reads Watchmen, Batman, and others silently over Park’s shoulder when they’re forced, by chance, to sit together. ![]()
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