Grownups Author:Cheryl Merser Cheryl Merser read PASSAGES and she found in it her parents' lives--but not her own. Careers, families, friends, relationships, success, loneliness, expectations and disappointments -- Merser explores how the men and women of her generation wrestle with their time-delayed rites of passage and their view of themselves as simply kids gro... more »wn older -- "grown-ups" instead of adults. This brilliant, deeply felt examination of just what makes the baby-boom generation different is filled with the kind of thought and compassion that can change the eay we look at our lives.« less