Ten Thousand Saints

In the rolling, electrified streets of New York City in the 1980s, Eliza, Jude, and Johnny each show up wanting a place to hide – from everything that has gone wrong, big and small, in their short lives. These three, thrown together by their parents’ mistakes and their own, and by the accidental death of a teenage boy, find their regrets transformed into a single, covert mission. Possibility shines from every neglected, graffitied surface. Possibility rings in the hardcore music and seething energy of the city’s underground scene. But as they pursue the intoxicating promise of redemption and new life, their secret threatens to crush their alliance with its impossibly heavy burden. This debut novel garnered the recognition of the New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2011. 390p.