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TEN THOUSAND SAINTS by Eleanor Henderson
It’s 1987 and New York’s lower east side and alphabet city are places for the homeless, vagrants, the impoverished, hippies, some immigrants who have held out through the next generation and some younger folks who call themselves “straight edge.” Straight edge refers to teenagers who like hard rock and punk but live a straight and clean lifestyle – no meat, no sex, no booze and no drugs. Many shave their heads and are into tattoos. That’s what TEN THOUSAND SAINTS by Eleanor Henderson is about – a group of straight ddge teens and their parents trying to understand themselves and one another as they venture through life, a lot of it in alphabet city in Manhattan.
June 8, 2011
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Tags: 1980s, Contemporary, Family Matters · Posted in: Addiction, Coming-of-Age, Contemporary, Debut Novel, Family Matters, NE & New York, New York City
