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Adopted by a set of diehard hippies, restless, marginal Jude Keffy-Horn spends much of his junior getting high along with his best ally, Teddy, in their bucolic and deeply numbing Vermont town. However when Teddy dies of your overdose on the previous day of 1987, Jude's relationship with drugs and along with his parents devolves to new extremes. Sent to live along with his pot-dealing dad in NY City's East Town, Jude stumbles upon straight edge, an underground junior culture run by the paradoxical hostility of hardcore punk and a righteous intolerance for drugs, meat, and sex. With Teddy's 50 percent brother, Johnny, and their new friend, Eliza, Jude will try to honor Teddy's memory space through his militantly clean lifestyle. But his craving to straight edge has its dangerous results. While these teenagers battle to find themselves, their parents have a problem with this new generation's radical reinterpretation of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll, and their grown-up awareness of mother nature and nurture, brotherhood and loss. Moving backwards and forwards between Vermont and NEW YORK, Ten Thousand Saints is an emphatically observed story of any frayed tangle of family members brought painfully mutually by a loss of life, then taken along in anticipation of a fresh and unpredicted life. With empathy and masterful skill, Eleanor Henderson has conjured a rich portrait of the modern get older and the problems that unite and separate generations.
