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Violence
Barely any
No significant violence
Language
Barely any
Mild language in Coupland's Generation X register
Sexual Content
Barely any
Minimal adult content in the suburban relationships
Substance Use
Some
Drug and alcohol use referenced as part of the generational portrait
Emotional Intensity
Some
The existential searching — and the loneliness of a generation that has no inherited framework for meaning — is the collection's sustained and resonant subject
What this book is about
Douglas Coupland's short story collection explores the spiritual lives of young adults raised in suburban North America without religion or conventional belief structures. The pieces are brief, introspective, and distinctly of their moment; the tone is quietly searching and melancholy. Some adult content in the suburban-ennui register. A significant document of Generation X's relationship with meaning.
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