While burnout may seem like the default setting for the modern era, BuzzFeed culture writer and former academic Anne Helen Petersen argues that burnout is a definitional condition for the millennial generation. Utilizing a combination of sociohistorical framework, original interviews, and detailed analysis, Petersen offers a galvanizing, intimate, and ultimately redemptive look at the lives of this much-maligned generation, and will be required reading for both millennials and the parents and employers trying to understand them.
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