![]() This program features bonus music recorded by Dr. Daniel Torday has written this generational cusp with wisdom, style and sincerity.' - Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Gold Fame Citrus ' Boomer1 is a dazzling new novel from one of America's premier writers. Told 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, Daniel Torday's Boomer1 is timely, suspenseful, and in every line alert to the siren song of endless opportunity that beckons and beguiles all of us. 'Boomer1 is a doozy-a prescient, cathartic love letter to Gen X, a fond call to arms for Millennials. 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. When Cassie refuses his marriage proposal, Mark leaves New York and returns to the basement of his childhood home in the Baltimore suburbs.ĭesperate and humiliated, Mark begins to post a series of Online video monologues that critique Baby Boomers and their powerful hold on the job market. ![]() 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. ![]() ![]() This program is read by Maggie Siff, acclaimed star of Mad Men, Billions, and Sons of Anarchy.īluegrass musician, former journalist and editor, and now PhD in English, Mark Brumfeld has arrived at his 30s with significant debt and no steady prospects. ![]()
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