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95/100Author:
Anne Helen Petersen
Publisher:
Mariner Books
Date:
September 22, 2020
An examination of burnout in millennialsâthe cultural shifts that got us here, the pressures that sustain it, and the need for drastic change
What The Reviewers Say
Petersen offers an insightful treatise on the 'burnout generation' that is a far cry from the essentialist portrayals of both generations that dominate the current discourse. Rather than dissect who is to blame for the plight (and it is a plight, histrionics aside) of millennials, Petersen offers a moving discourse on why the kids are not alright and, even more importantly, why they are not, despite how they’ve been characterized, the spoiled, lazy, feckless generation.
Burnout is a one-word descriptor that Petersen argues is capacious enough to encapsulate an entire generation’s crisis—even if it affects individuals and groups in wildly different ways.
It is my sincere hope that millennials will read Can’t Even.
... a brisk, impassioned addition to an emergent mini-genre of journalistic nonfiction: books that rigorously describe and critique a single manifestation of late capitalism.
