Keira lives in a hellhole Newtown share house with two friends, is barely scraping by as a nanny for a rich, vacuous Double Bay woman while trying to make a living as a journalist, and her longing to buy property is palpable.
The set-up sounds like Kill Your Boomers is a cheesy, sparkly romcom, but it’s anything but. For one thing, the writing is beautiful, befitting literature of a much higher standard than you expect from anything in Booktok genres like this.
Wright also has such a deep understanding of life for millennials (the thankless indignity of trying to be a writer in today’s market, the unattainable housing market in Sydney’s inner city suburbs), she’s either lived it or her talent is even more prodigious than it appears.
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