Ten Thousand Saints

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Vermont, New Year's Eve, 1987. All Jude wants to do is get high. All Teddy wants to do is get out. One of them won't live to see 1988.

In the wake of this death, three teenagers will try to find a way of honouring their lost friend. Is clean living the answer Is parenthood Or the simplicity of carrying out a last wish

Winding its way through Vermont, New York, the Straight Edge music scene and the early days of the AIDS epidemic, Ten Thousand Saints is a fierce, brilliant depiction of all types of love and its flaws, of life, loss and pain; a profoundly human story that explores how one moment of carelessness can impact the lives of so many.

Reviews

'A rare debut that, with a flinty kind of nostalgia, invokes both the gods and demons of a generation' Vogue. * Vogue *
'Henderson does not hold back once: she writes the hell out of every moment, every impulse and desire ... fierce, devoted and elegiac' New York Times Book Review. * New York Times Book Review *
'Henderson's writing ... is warm, engaged, and precise' Nick Hornby. * Nick Hornby *

Author Bio

Eleanor Henderson lives in Ithaca, where she is an assistant Professor at Ithaca college. She earned her MFA from the University of Virginia in 2005 and her writing has appeared in several American publications including Agni, North American Review, Ninth Letter and Columbia, among others.