Andy, Claire, and Dag, each in their twenties, have quit pointless jobs in their respective hometowns to find better meaning in life.
Generation X is Douglas Coupland's classic novel about the generation born from 1960 to 1978 -a generation known until then simply as twenty somethings.
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