Scribbling to sainthood

A Small Life

“You’re not a moron. You’re only a case of arrested development,” Ernest Hemingway wrote in The Sun Also Rises. Arrested development: a term coined for the Lost Generation in the 1920s, now liberally applied to my generation: the Millennials. To be fair, it fits. The air Hemingway breathed as he crafted his seminal novel was thick with angst and disillusionment. He and his contemporaries witnessed atrocities and been scarred by frontline experiences, but the world eagerly swept the aftermath