BEST BOOK OF THE FALL AS SEEN IN: Apartment Therapy • Book Riot • Business Insider • BuzzFeed • Daily Nebraskan • Entertainment Weekly • Esquire • Fortune • Harper’s Bazaar • HelloGiggles • LinkedIn • O Magazine • Time Magazine“[A] razor sharp ebook of cultural criticism…With blistering prose and all-too vivid reporting, Petersen lays naked the burnout and depression of millennials, whilst also charting a route to a international where individuals of her era can feel as if the boot has been removed from their necks.” —Esquire“An analytically precise, deeply empathic book approximately the psychic toll present day capitalism has taken on the ones shaped by means of it. Can't Even is important to information our age, and ourselves."—Ezra Klein, Vox co-founder and New York Times bestselling creator of Why We're Polarized An incendiary examination of burnout in millennials—the cultural shifts that got us here, the pressures that preserve it, and the need for drastic trade Do you sense like your life is an endless to-do list? Do you locate your self mindlessly scrolling via Instagram because you’re too exhausted to pick out up a e-book? Are you mired in debt, or sense like you work all of the time, or sense pressure to take whatever gives you joy and turn it into a monetizable hustle? Welcome to burnout culture. While burnout may appear to be the default placing for the current era, in Can’t Even, BuzzFeed culture author and previous academic Anne Helen Petersen argues that burnout is a definitional condition for the millennial technology, born out of distrust in the establishments that have failed us, the unrealistic expectations of the modern workplace, and a pointy uptick in tension and hopelessness exacerbated by using the steady strain to “perform” our lives online. The genesis for the book is Petersen’s viral BuzzFeed article on the topic, which has accrued over seven million reads considering that its e-book in January 2019.Can’t Even is going beyond the authentic article, as Petersen examines how millennials have arrived at this factor of burnout (think: unchecked capitalism and converting hard work laws) and examines the phenomenon through a lot of lenses—including how burnout affects the way we work, parent, and socialize—describing its resonance in alarming familiarity. Utilizing a combination of sociohistorical framework, authentic interviews, and unique analysis, Can’t Even offers a galvanizing, intimate, and in the end redemptive observe the lives of this much-maligned technology, and may be required reading for each millennials and the mother and father and employers attempting to understand them.