Twentysomething: Why Do Young Adults Seem Stuck?

The definitive book about being young in our time.
Why do so many twentysomethings seem to be taking so long to grow up?

Did helicopter parents breed an entitled generation?

And how different are things, really, from the way they used to be?

Robin Marantz Henig’s controversial 2010 New York Times Magazine article ‘What Is It About 20-Somethings?’ raised a slew of questions like these.

Now Baby Boomer Robin and her Millennial daughter Samantha set out to find answers.

Combing through the scientific research and surveying members of both generations, Robin and Samantha come up with some surprising discoveries.
Written with unusual insight into young adulthood, Twentysomething will bring much-needed balance to this typically one-sided conversation.
‘The fullest guide through this territory … a densely researched report on the state of middle-class young people today.’

The New Yorker
‘With humor and insight, the authors deftly volley commentary and observation across the generation gap.’

Publishers Weekly