Using a series of essays and a humorous collection of infographs, IM / text messages and other illustrations, sisters -- born 14 years apart -- Eve (Gen X) and Leonora Epstein (Gen Y) take on the differences and similarities between Generations X and Y. They discuss what bridges the gap between the two as well as why there will never be total understanding between them. The book is divided into sections, covering every topic you can imagine -- movies, music, books, sex & dating, it's all here.
This book was right up my alley because it covers a number of conversation topics I find myself pondering on in my own life. I strongly identify with being in that gray area of people born in the early 1980s the Epsteins discuss! While technically my birth year places me as a millennial, I have a Gen X older brother whose interests had a pretty big influence on my own, growing up. So there's a lot that I identify with from both generational periods. Which is probably why I found this essay collection so fascinating, finding out that I was far from being the only one who felt this way! Even reading the thoughts and opinions of both Epstein sisters, I still found myself unable to side with either, feeling very much right down the middle on a lot of things. I would be feeling what one sister was saying but then she goes on about how stupid a song "Tubthumpin" by Chumbawumba is... c'mon now, how can you not love to party to that one? =-D Oh, and then there was the time that Gen Y sister knocked Bono of U2, one of my all-time favorite bands. Fightin' words, girl. Fightin' words. But then I was Team Y again when she started waxing poetic about the days of the dELiA*s catalog. ;-)
There were portions where I felt a bit of a disconnect with what both sisters were saying, I think simply because I had a different upbringing. These ladies had a bit of a privileged childhood which included stores I never had access to and Manhattan private school educations. So there were moments where they'd be like "everyone had these things" "everyone experienced this" and I would be left thinking, well no, not everyone. That aside, some of my favorite portions were the bits regarding online dating experiences, "the inexplicable nostalgia for JTT", and the debates on influential / classic movies of each generation. Also loved Gen X sister Eve comparing E.B. White's Charlotte's Web to the films of Spike Jonze and Wes Anderson. X-D
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