Ten Thousand Saints

amp;#8220;Eleanor Henderson is in possession of an enormous talent which she has matched up with skill, ambition, and a fierce imagination.amp;#160; The resulting novel, Ten Thousand Saints, is the best thing Iamp;#8217;ve read in a long time.amp;#8221;
amp;#8212;Ann Patchett, bestselling author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder

A sweeping, multigenerational drama, set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City during the late 1980s, Ten Thousand Saints triumphantly heralds the arrival a remarkable new writer. Eleanor Hendersonamp;#160; makes a truly stunning debut with a novel that is part coming of age, part coming to terms, immediately joining the ranks of The Emperoramp;#8217;s Children by Claire Messud and Jonathan Lethemamp;#8217;s The Fortress of Solitude. Adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled optimism and reckless stupidity of the youngamp;#8212;and oldamp;#8212;are all major elements in this heart-aching tale of the son of diehard hippies and his strange odyssey through the extremes of late 20th century youth culture.