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Can’t Even

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An incendiary personal and cultural investigation of burnout

Are you tired, stressed and trying your best but somehow still not doing enough? Has the bottom half of your To Do list been locked in place for months? Is everything becoming work as your job seeps into your evenings, you monetise your hobbies and perform your leisure time on social media?

This is burnout - what increasingly like the defining feature of our lives. We are exhausted. But burnout is not a personal failing. It is a creeping part of modern culture, shaped by deep-rooted political, historical and economic forces, and it is affecting how we work, parent, socialise and inhabit the world.

Anne Helen Petersen identifies burnout with moving clarity - what it feels like and how it manifests across communities. Through her own experience, original interviews and detailed analysis, she traces the institutional and generational causes of burnout. And, in doing so, she helps us to let go of our guilt and imagine a possible future.

Reassuring, insightful and galvanising, Can't Even is essential reading for all of us.

© Anne Helen 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Critics Review

Meticulously researched… astutely observed… extremely enlightening

Guardian

Urgent and insightful book… Read this and get a much-needed perspective

Stylist

An intelligent and well-researched analysis… To those born into the same generation, its truth is searing

Sunday Times

A readable, well-researched guide to a generation

The Times, *Book of the Week*

Relevant to everyone living under capitalism

New Statesman
Author Anne Helen Petersen
Narrator Anne Helen Petersen
Duration 8 hours and 26 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781473592186
Format Audiobook
Publisher Random House
Genre Age groups and generations, Popular culture, Self-help, personal development and practical advice, Social, group or collective psychology, Sociology: work and labour
Availability AU, GB, IE

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