![]() ![]() Torday has written this book with verve, but it would have been nice if he had slowed down a bit. She also poignantly illustrates the slow but steady creep of time, and the way 'old' age often arrives as a surprise. Mark’s mother.Her story highlights some of the fatuousness of making broad generational generalizations, not least because most female boomers have had less agency than their daughters. For a book animated by the gripes of young people, it is interesting that the most fully realized character here is Julia. 'They were meant to retire at the age of sixty-five,' Mark declares in the first of many homemade videos to go viral. ![]() There, in the basement bedroom of his youth, he spawns the Boomer Boomers, a revolutionary group of unemployed millennials who accuse baby boomers of selfishly clinging to all the good jobs. At 31 he is jobless, jilted and deep in debt. ![]()
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