Marcello Rollando encores Dan P. Greanery's Book, The Worst Generation

The Worst Generation attempts to reflect into individual lives the results of large-scale choices of American society in recent decades. It is character Jenny Alhouse’s indictment of her parents’ generation’s contributions to the world. Her recounting of childhood shows much she is thankful for—a stable, caring home, times kayaking with her father, family trips, a quality education, the benefits of prosperity. But she tells the story from her adulthood, and includes the things she could not see as a child: the economic and environmental plundering and inconsideration imbedded in her upbringing that leave her world unstable, uncivil, and unsafe.

Dan P. Greaney has worked in education and the outdoors since his youth. Influences on him include a degree in English from Stanford, a teaching credential through UC, Davis, a Catholic upbringing, and years of working with youth—in the classroom, through outdoor science schools, summer camps, and the National Park Service. Now he works in university outreach for California State University at Chico, leads walks and writes for his local Audubon, and participates in community development efforts. He lives in northern California with his wife, a teacher; their two children are grown and mostly out of the house, developing their contributions to the world.