The story of two star-crossed misfitssmart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. When Eleanor meets Park, youll remember your own first loveand just how hard it pulled you under. Bono met his wife in high school, Park says. So did Jerry Lee Lewis, Eleanor answers. Im not kidding, he says. You should be, she says, were 16. What about Romeo and Juliet? Shallow, confused, then dead. I love you, Park says. Wherefore art thou, Eleanor answers. Im not kidding, he says. You should be.