Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Back to Her Future | 2023 | Cary J. Hansson | Buy |
| 2 | Tainted Love | 2024 | Cary J. Hansson | Buy |
Cary J. Hansson’s Gen X series speaks directly to readers who grew up in the 1980s and 1990s. Back to Her Future (2023) and Tainted Love (2024) follow women of that generation as they look back at who they were and forward at who they might still become. The titles nod to the pop culture that shaped these characters, and the books are steeped in generational references without drowning in them.
The series taps into the specific experience of being a Gen X woman: sandwiched between boomer parents and millennial children, often overlooked by culture at large, and now arriving at a stage of life where the choices made decades ago have fully played out. Hansson writes about this with dry wit and genuine feeling.