Eleanor Henderson's Ten Thousand Saints
If a book is described as a "sweeping, multi-generational epic"--well, you have a certain idea of what it's going to be like. And this book isn't like that at all--it's mostly about annoying teenagers doing drugs (I hate books about annoying teenagers doing drugs) and then turning into even more annoying straight-edge kids (it takes place in the 80s). Technically it's multi-generational--one set of parents is featured in a minor way--but I'd hesitate before calling it a multi-generational epic. Not to say it's a bad book--I liked the one character who was a girl, and I wanted to know what would happen to her--but it wasn't really my cup of tea. B/B-.
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