Aimless Generation

Welcome to the end of the decade, where the New York party never stopped and Hamilton West was the cynical, self-destructive bill… a check that finally came due. Aimless Generation examines the social and cultural ambivalence of New York City in the digital age. It explores how technology has enabled a lost generation of Americans to indulge in vices, mainly sex, drugs, and alcohol. It is told over the 2019 calendar year, with a raw depiction of travel during a spiral of addiction, boredom, and depravity. Hamilton West Jr.’s voice is crude, direct, dark, yet humorous and heartbreaking. His clear prose is marked by his moral entropy and his iconoclastic contempt for religion, materialism, capitalism, politics, and mainstream responsibility. Aimless Generation is a memoir of both confession and critique, perfect for readers of Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, and J.D. Salinger. _____ Quotes: “there are holes in their psyche and an ongoing itch to fill them, primarily through insatiable sex with girls of same mindset, White Claw drunkenness, Instagram and social media, apps, Uber, "partycations" and "dadchlor" parties.” -Jeanette Skirvin, author of Epitome Place “I think it’s interesting he said his favorite book was On the Road by Jack Kerouak because I think this book could be similarly inspiring to people wanting to live a similar way” -Autumn G., Independent Review “West Jr. deftly illustrates the black hole at the center of a generation with stark and honest language. A dark and often discomfiting ride through the fog of a numb modern existence,” -Amazon Review View Less