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"Parents will love this fascinating, fact-packed mother-daughter dialogue, and so will their 'emerging adult' sons and daughters. If you think today's young people are another species entirely, you've forgotten way too much about your own early struggles and screwups."--Katha Pollitt, author of Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories
"Losing sleep because you think your grown kids are behaving like the characters in the HBO series, 'Girls'? Twentysomething will calm your nerves. Smart, well-researched, down-to-earth and lively, this mother-daughter collaboration is chock full of important insight into the newest generation coming of age."--Barry Schwartz, Ph.D. author of The Paradox of Choice and Practical Wisdom
"If you want to understand young people in the decade after college graduation--their anxiety about work and relationships, intensity of friendships, and feelings of drive and dislocation--this book is the perfect guide. Robin Marantz Henig and Samantha Henig weave the relevant research into an entertaining narrative, and their mother-daughter patter is a pure delight."--Emily Bazelon, author of Sticks and Stones: The New Problem of Bullying and How To Solve It
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