LIBRARY TO HOST AUTHOR, IC PROFESSOR HENDERSON

The Tompkins County Public Library will host Ithaca College assistant professor and acclaimed author Eleanor Henderson for a reading and signing of her debut novel, “Ten Thousand Saints,” Thursday, July 28 at 6:00 PM in the BorgWarner Community Room. 

Set in 1980s New York City, “Ten Thousand Saints” is an edgy coming-of-age novel that tests the bonds of friendship, family and fate. Described as an “empathetic novel of wayward youth and their wayward parents,” the book has garnered praise from the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, the L.A. Times and the New York Times Book Review.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event, with proceeds directly benefitting Library programs and services.

This program is free and open to the public and is being held in conjunction with the Library and the Tompkins County Public Library Foundation’s 2011 Local Writers Series.

For more information about “Ten Thousand Saints,” visit http://eleanorhenderson.wordpress.com/.  For information about this program, contact Carrie Wheeler-Carmenatty at cwheeler@tcpl.org or (607) 272-4557 extension 248.