The Fairfield Public Library invites you to meet author, Eleanor Henderson on Sunday, April 15 as she shares her debut novel Ten Thousand Saints (Harper Collins, 2011). She will be in the Memorial Room at the Main Library, 1080 Old Post Road at 1:30 p.m.
Moving back and forth between Vermont and New York City, Ten Thousand Saints is an emphatically observed story of a frayed tangle of friends and family members, brought painfully together by a death, then carried along in anticipation of new and unexpected life. In this classic story Henderson sheds light on a unique subculture, straight edge. This offshoot of punk is an underground youth culture powered by the paradoxical aggression to hardcore punk and righteous intolerance for drugs, meat and sex. While these teenagers battle to discover themselves, their parents struggle with this new generation’s radical reinterpretation of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll and their grown-up awareness of nature and nurture, brotherhood and loss. With empathy and masterful skill, Eleanor Henderson has conjured a rich portrait of the modern age and the struggles that unite and divide generations
Eleanor Henderson was born in Greece, grew up in Florida, and attended Middlebury College and the University of Virginia where she received her MFA in 2005. From 2006 to 2010 she taught at James Madison University in Virginia. She is now an assistant professor at Ithaca College where she lives with her husband and sons.
Advanced registration is required due to the limited space. All programs at the Fairfield Public Library are free of charge. For more information and to register for this event call 203-256-3160, or visit us on the web www.fairfieldpubliclibray.org . Follow the Fairfield Public Library on Twitter: www.twitter.com/fairfieldpublib and Facebook: www.facebook.com/fairfieldlibrary.
