From the “Lost” to the “Millennial” Generations: The American Expatriate Experience
When Ernest Hemingway wrote The Sun Also Rises in 1926, he captured the disillusionment and debauchery of a “lost generation” caught between two world wars. Published in 2011, Ben Lerner’s debutante novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, similarly centers around the experience of a young American expatriate in present-day Spain. Though it is difficult – impossible, really … Read more