"Now you young twerps want a new name for your generation? Probably not, you just want jobs, right? Well, the media do us all such tremendous favors when they call you Generation X, right? Two clicks from the very end of the alphabet. I hereby declare you Generation A, as much at the beginning of a series of astonishing triumphs and failures as Adam and Eve were so long ago." — Kurt Vonnegut After many years of recommendations and the associated build-up, I’ve finally done it: I read my first Douglas Coupland book. Does he live up to the hype? Well... Generation A tells a tale of a strange and alternate Earth, one where the bees have mysteriously disappeared. As such, some of the things that we take for granted now are gone, like flowers and apples and such. We are told the story from the perspectives of 5 different people around the world. There’s Zack, a somehow model-esque redneck farmboy from Iowa. Harj, a customer services operator ba