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Twentysomething: Why Do Young Adults Seem Stuck? (2012)

by Robin Marantz Henig(Favorite Author)

3.35 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1594630968 (ISBN13: 9781594630965)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Hudson Street Press

review 1: This book is great and not just for 20somethings but maybe 30somethings as well. Very insightful and helpful to know I'm not the only one struggling with decisions about myself, love, career, children and etc. This book also helps with understanding the pressures that the older generation puts on us young adults. I highly recommend this book to anyone who feels a little "unadult like" on a regular basis.
review 2: I enjoyed this book, but I was disappointed by it for two reasons. The first, more reasonable, is that the book was really concerned with middle and upper middle class twentysomethings. The introduction admits this, but it made the book very unrelateable for me, and considering the employment rate and poverty rate for twentysomethings, not relateable ... morefor a huge chunk of us. It felt a little off for the book to talk about boomerang Millenials or delayed adulthood based on marriage, steady jobs, and having babies without talking about how so many twentysomethings are poor and un(der)employed.The second reason is less reasonable. I wanted this book to make me feel better about the utter mess my twenties are. But it didn't, partially because it didn't deal with class issues. The particulars of upper middle class Millenials are just not relevant to my life, and while the book tries to have an optimistic message, it felt like a message that didn't have anything to do with me.I wish there was a book that smartly dealt with issues of class as they relate to Millenials. I would read the shit out of that. less

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