I grew up outside the US but now live in it. I'm around 40 years old. I feel that my life is extremely different from when I was growing up but cannot decide if it's just because I'm older & in a different country (and have a different life situation—job, family, etc) or if it's more that life is just very different.
Anyways, looking for fiction (though I guess open to non-fiction) that shows what life was like in the US around that period, is specially for folks in a similar situation as I am now: forty-ish, college-educated, with family, in the NE. That might be too specific, so I'll take anything in that general vicinity. Thanks!
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This isn’t about that specifically, but Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory is a 90s period piece about a family of telepaths. Very light fantasy.
Non-fiction, but Chuck Klosterman’s The Nineties.
The Mayfair Witches books by Anne Rice are delightfully ‘90s. It’s a really weird series involving incest, witches, sex demons, just to name a few. So your mileage may vary as to whether or not it’s your thing. But it does have delightfully ‘90s lines like a character and her “top of the line IBM 486 with maxed out RAM” and who has hacking superpowers.
Mine by Robert McCammon, especially in the beginning, nails the feeling of early ‘90s America, especially Atlanta, where the novel begins.
Stephen King has always been great at capturing the time and feel of a place. So pretty much anything he wrote in the ‘90s. Rose Madder, The Dark Half, Desperation, Bag of Bones.