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Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything
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A brilliantly provocative and entertaining essay collection about the Y2K era, the generation defining period that birthed everything from AOL Instant Messenger, the Hummer H2, bling era rap, and low-rise jeans, to McMansions, anti-Bush chain emails, Abu Ghraib, and the subprime mortgage crisis.
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"Shade aims a keen literary eye toward that thorny, confounding, but constantly referenced millennium-dawning era."
"She's excellent on the long-term effects of existing in order to want—how emotion and self-discovery were channeled through consumption."
"A reflective, nostalgic, backward glance at a bygone era some recall fondly and others regret."
"Shade renders her personal struggles as well, which show admirable fortitude ..."
"Her writing throbs with a vibrant political indignation."
"As Shade persuasively demonstrates, this hopeful energy masked not only the failures of global capitalism...but also the political vacuity and cultural rot of the period ..."
"A rich blend of cultural and economic analysis, this soars."
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