Kill Your Boomers

‘Kill Your Boomers has notes of Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection in Wright’s attention to the accoutrements of millennial aspiration, and Leila Slimani’s Lullaby in the more class-conscious homicidal tendencies at work.’

‘Wright captures a particularly middle-class anxiety: that the children of comfortable parents will not be able to replicate the conditions of their own upbringing. Live in the same suburbs, sleep the “deep sleep of the salaried”, send their children to the same schools (or have children at all). Forget social mobility, is continuity still possible? Was it ever?’

Fiona Wright is a writer, editor, poet and critic from Sydney. Her book of essays Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger won the 2016 Nita B. Kibble Award and the Queensland Literary Award for non-fiction, and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the NSW Premier’s Douglas Stewart Prize. Her first poetry collection, Knuckled, won the 2012 Dame Mary Gilmore Award, while Domestic Interior was shortlisted for the 2018 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry. Her most recent book of essays, The World Was Whole, was longlisted for the 2019 Stella Prize. She completed a PhD at Western Sydney University’s Writing & Society Research Centre. Her poems and essays have been published in The Australian, Meanjin, Island, Overland, The Lifted Brow, Seizure and HEAT.