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Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was)

A lean, nimble and profoundly depressing new book of memoiristic essays, but an entire era with its own identifiable, balloonish sensibility ... As the coming-of-age chronicle of a relatively privileged person during a peaceful and prosperous time, Y2K is unnerving ... Her writing throbs with a vibrant political indignation.
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Shade’s approach oscillates between her personal experiences, narratives about contemporaneous brands and fads and figures, and her trenchant commentary, resulting in essays on subjects that range from the rise of the internet to globalization, climate change, fashion, Starbucks and hip-hop ... Shade renders her personal struggles as well, which show admirable fortitude ... Shade is a deft and dexterous writer, emotionally intelligent and authoritative. Y2K is her first book, but I hope, for literature’s future at least, that it won’t be her last.
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Compact, yet powerful ... 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 ... Wide-ranging and tremendously compelling.
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