We’ve heard the line a million times before. On Lena Dunham’s HBO series Girls, protagonist Hannah Horvath, an aspiring memoirist, declares herself “the voice of her generation” before hastily clarifying that she’s simply “a voice of a generation.” Though she recognizes that she can’t stand in for everybody, Hannah wants to believe that her personal anecdotes can speak for every other 20-something dealing with the woes of living on the cusp of the adult world.
