Publisher's Synopsis
Memories Adrift
Who was Generation Y? Not even they themselves seem to remember. Perched between the cynical Generation X and the activist millennials, Generation Y was a cohort that lived on both sides of the divide. They had an analogue childhood, and a digital adulthood, and grew up playing with the best toys ever made. Children before 9/11 and adults afterward, they were raised to survive in a world that no longer exists, and as a result they have been afflicted by nostalgia to a near clinical degree. From David V. Stewart, author of Eyes in the Walls, comes an eclectic collection of stories, scenes and aphorisms exploring the perspective and emotions of those born in the late 1970s to late 1980s, the forgotten "Gen Y." Wistful childhood experience and painful memory mix with future vision, leading past despair to hope and finally acceptance. Afterglow offers the literary equivalent of a house of mirrors: reflections that are familiar and calming, and yet uncomfortable when viewed askew.
