I fall in the same age category as a "Carter Baby" and have often felt the same way as you describe, but haven't been able to put it into words before. So thank you for doing so!
As a millennial, I appreciate this (and ordered one of the books). I think one of the things re: millennials and the weird liminal space we occupy that doesn't get talked about enough is how many of us (at least, in my experience, the ones born in the 80s) kept thinking that social media etc would go away and just be some passing fad of youth.
I fall in the same age category as a "Carter Baby" and have often felt the same way as you describe, but haven't been able to put it into words before. So thank you for doing so!
As a millennial, I appreciate this (and ordered one of the books). I think one of the things re: millennials and the weird liminal space we occupy that doesn't get talked about enough is how many of us (at least, in my experience, the ones born in the 80s) kept thinking that social media etc would go away and just be some passing fad of youth.
Tom and Anna in "Perfections" are Italian, not American expats.
Honestly thought they were American and must have missed that until I saw this, then read the NYT profile.