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Trivial grievances, on the contradictions, myths and misery of your 30s, Bridie Jabour

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Trivial grievances, on the contradictions, myths and misery of your 30s, Bridie Jabour

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eng

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Bibliographical references (pages 263-269.)

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Trivial grievances

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bibliography

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Bridie Jabour

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on the contradictions, myths and misery of your 30s

Summary

In 2019, Bridie Jabour wrote a piece for the Guardian about the malaise of millennials and how the painful, protracted end of their adolescence is finally hitting home. They're looking at their lives and thinking: 'Is this it? Have I chosen the right place to live, the right job, the right partner? Am I, perhaps, not as special as I thought?' The article went viral overnight and Bridie decided the time had come to write a book about her generation - those much-maligned millennials. After all, she reasoned, this generation is coming of age in a unique set of social and economic circumstances, including precarious work, delayed baby-making, rising singledom, a heating planet, loss of religion, increased unstable housing and, now, a pandemic. But despite her assumption that this generation of 31-year-olds is the most miserable ever, she discovered that wasn't the whole truth ... Forthright, funny, incisive and provocative, Trivial Grievances is truly a book for our times, and for every 20- or 30-something-year-old anxious about their place in the world

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