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Eleanor met Aaron when she was just a teenager and he was working at a local record store -- older, cool, experienced, and with an electric personality. Escaping the clichs of fleeting young love, their summer romance bloomed into a relationship that survived college and culminated in a marriage and two children. From the outside looking in, their life had all the trappings of what most would consider a success story. But, as in any marriage, things weren't always as they seemed. On top of the typical stresses of parenting, money, and work, there were Aaron's untended wounds of depression, addiction, and family trauma. Then, when burning lesions appeared on his body overnight, Eleanor was as baffled as his doctors. There seemed to be no obvious diagnosis, let alone a cure.
About the Author
Eleanor Henderson's latest novel is The Twelve-Mile Straight (Ecco, 2017) . Her debut novel, Ten Thousand Saints (Ecco, 2011) , was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2011 by The New York Times, was a finalist for the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction from the Los Angeles Times, and was adapted into a movie in 2015. Her work has appeared in Agni, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Poets & Writers, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Best American Short Stories. With Anna Solomon she is the co-editor of Labor Day: True Birth Stories by America's Best Women Writers (FSG, 2014) . An associate professor at Ithaca College, she lives in Ithaca, New York, with her husband and two sons.
