Twentysomething: Why Do Young Adults Seem Stuck? [Paperback]

A mother-daughter writing team reports on what's really up with kids today

Science writer Robin Marantz Henig and her daughter, journalist Samantha Henig, offer a smart, comprehensive look at what it's really like to be twentysomething—and to what extent it’s different for Millennials than it was for their Baby Boomer parents. The Henigs combine the behavioral science literature for insights into how young people make choices about schooling, career, marriage, and childbearing; how they relate to parents, friends, and lovers; and how technology both speeds everything up
and slows everything down. Packed with often-surprising discoveries, Twentysomething is a two-generation conversation that will become the definitive book on being young in our time.

The fullest guide through this territory . . . A densely researched report on the state of middleclass young people today, drawn from several data sources and fi­ltered through a comparative lens.
—­The New YorkerMust Read for November 2012
–Oprah Magazine

The fullest guide through this territory...a densely researched report on the state of middle-class young people today.
–The New Yorker
 
“Provocative information presented compellingly”
–Kirkus
 
“With humor and insight, the authors deftly volley commentary and observation across the generation gap”
–Publishers Weekly

 “In this provocative, comprehensive, and often very funny examination of the phenomenon of 'twentysomething,' Robin Marantz Henig and Samantha Henig provide the perspective of two generations on this new stage of life. Anyone who is twentysomething, is related to a twentysomething, or works with a twentysomething, will want to read this book.

—Gretchen Rubin, author ofThe Happiness Project

“Parents will love this fascinalÃ!