Eleanor Henderson makes an auspicious debut with this fearless tale of youth in extremis during the turbulent ’80s. Sometimes too much of a good thing is just not enough. When his friend Teddy dies of an overdose, disaffected adolescent Jude puts suburban Vermont in his rearview mirror and makes for New York City—where a decade’s hopes and foibles spin madly about him. “… a nervy voice adept at etching the outlines of a generation, its prejudices and pandemics, and the idols killed along the way.” —Publishers Weekly
