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An angry young man starts a radical movement pitting millennials against baby boomers in this satire by the author of The Last Flight of Poxl West.
Bluegrass musician, former journalist and editor, and now PhD in English, Mark Brumfeld has arrived at his thirties with significant debt and no steady prospects. His girlfriend Cassie―a punk bassist in an all-female band, who fled her Midwestern childhood for a new identity―finds work at a "new media" company. When Cassie refuses his marriage proposal, Mark leaves New York and returns to the basement of his childhood home in the Baltimore suburbs.
Desperate and humiliated, Mark begins to post a series of online video monologues that critique Baby Boomers and their powerful hold on the job market. But as his videos go viral, and while Cassie starts to build her career, Mark loses control of what he began―with consequences that ensnare them in a matter of national security.
Told through the perspectives of Mark, Cassie, and Mark's mother, Julia, a child of the '60s whose life is more conventional than she ever imagined, Boomer1 is timely, suspenseful, and in every line alert to the siren song of endless opportunity that beckons and beguiles all of us.
"Torday's gifts as a writer are brilliantly displayed...Stylishly written, cleverly observed, and boldly imagined." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Smart and culturally attuned." —Library Journal
"Torday (The Last Flight of Poxl West) constructs a hilarious story about generational conflict brought to a boiling point...Torday's wry examination of those attempting to survive in postrecession America is particularly poignant." —Publishers Weekly
"Boomer1 is a sharp, bright and often amusing snapshot of this unwieldy economic moment." —Wall Street Journal
"Torday is a singular American writer with a big heart and a real love for the world. He has the rare gift for writing dynamic action scenes while being genuinely funny." —George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo
"In this inventive, hilarious, and audacious book, Daniel Torday elucidates the deep ironies and ambivalences embedded in how we live now." —Dana Spiotta, author of Innocents and Others and National Book Critics Circle Award winner
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Daniel Torday is the Director of Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College. An author and former editor at Esquire magazine, Torday currently serves as an editor at The Kenyon Review. His short stories and essays have appeared in Esquire, Glimmer Train, Harper Perennial's Fifty-Two Stories, Harvard Review, The New York Times and The Kenyon Review. Torday's novella, The Sensualist, won the 2012 National Jewish Book Award for debut fiction.
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