{"product_id":"boomer1-9781250214775","title":"Boomer1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTorday is a singular American writer with a big heart and a real love for the world. He has the rare gift for writing dynamic action scenes while being genuinely funny. --George Saunders\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBluegrass musician, former journalist and editor, and now PhD in English, Mark Brumfeld has arrived at his thirties with significant debt and no steady prospects. His girlfriend Cassie--a punk bassist in an all-female band, who fled her Midwestern childhood for a new identity--finds work at a \"new media\" company. When Cassie refuses his marriage proposal, Mark leaves New York and returns to the basement of his childhood home in the Baltimore suburbs. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDesperate and humiliated, Mark begins to post a series of online video monologues that critique Baby Boomers and their powerful hold on the job market. But as his videos go viral, and while Cassie starts to build her career, Mark loses control of what he began--with consequences that ensnare them in a matter of national security. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold through the perspectives of Mark, Cassie, and Mark's mother, Julia, a child of the '60s whose life is more conventional than she ever imagined, \u003ci\u003eBoomer1 \u003c\/i\u003eis timely, suspenseful, and in every line alert to the siren song of endless opportunity that beckons and beguiles all of us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/10\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250214775\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.30w x 1.00d","brand":"Daniel Torday","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42917109137589,"sku":"9781250214775","price":22.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_2aeefc24-8315-4f07-9a9f-1d4815277628.jpg?v=1687277789","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/boomer1-9781250214775","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}