Life Pending: Rising Above Rootlessness

By Darryl Penich

Most of us grow up fairly certain that working hard, doing as we're told, and taking the path most travelled will lead us to a smooth transition into the more rooted stages of life. Our young minds are inundated with the conventional belief that getting an education will enable us to find a decent job, and that being a good person will land us in the warm, lasting embrace of a decent partner. But with these vastly oversimplified and increasingly antiquated notions becoming seemingly more difficult to fulfil, what is one to do when such efforts, no matter how rigorously applied, fail to yield even the most modest of personal and professional outcomes? It is this burgeoning social pattern with which Dylan Price must contend as he embarks on his highly flawed and frustratingly prolonged quest to become a bona fide "grown-up," a dicey pursuit to establish even a small semblance of stability that sends him face-first into a brick wall fashioned with more romantic and vocational issues than the condemned twenty-something can shake a stick at. Both a humorous and insightful depiction of Gen X and Millennial woes as well as a cautionary tale for Gen Z and beyond, Life Pending: Rising Above Rootlessness is the author's embellished account of his own social and psychological journey through what many consider to be life's most absurd phase. Ultimately, it seeks to offer a stirring perspective by echoing the perplexing and often demoralizing circumstances of countless other budding adults who have similarly struggled to plant firm roots in a world with increasingly unstable ground.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1795655445
• ISBN13: 9781795655446
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.0"