Generation X is often described as having little respect for authority or tradition, few identifiable ideals, no heroes, no loyalty, no real optimism. The author, an award-winning playwright, punk rock guitarist/singer, chef, police motorcycle mechanic, theatre critic and recovering Catholic, paints a vivid portrait of growing up in Nebraska in the sixties, seventies and eighties, and how Generation X rejected the values, traditions and morality of Boomers.