A review by kateyoutka
One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In by Kate Kennedy

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

I’m hesitant to call anyone the voice of a generation, but Kate Kennedy is absolutely one of the defining voices of the Millennial generation. In our current era of millennial nostalgia, a book examining peak Millennial cultural touchstones could easily come off as pandering or trite. But OIAM is anything but. Kennedy takes a careful look at the near universal experiences of women of a certain age, a fresh and sobering reminder that our cringiest behaviors were also ones practiced by many of the women and girls around us. This book feels like community and friendship. Kennedy makes you feel seen, heard and understood, as embarrassing as these memories may be. You’ll find yourself gasping because she remembers things you had either completely forgotten existed or blacked out from the sheer cringe of it all. My experience reading this book felt like a novel length version of the quote Taylor Swift shared in her TIME person of the year interview: don’t kill the part of you that’s cringe, kill the part of you that cringes.