PHILADELPHIA — In "Our Gen," Diane McKinney-Whetstone’s latest novel, a group of friends have casual sex, keep secrets, and smoke a lot of weed. But they aren’t millennials, they live in an active 55+ community in townhomes with smart appliances. They laugh a lot and always have time for a good time.
“When I started thinking about writing about the 55+ active community, I wanted to put all of the things I would have wanted in my home that would be fun: floor-to-ceiling windows, security systems with facial recognition technology, all of the things.”
This, Whetstone’s seventh book, is a change for the award-winning Philadelphia writer. Her previous works, that include her first novel, "Tumbling," were intense stories about young Black women whose lives were upended by racism, unintended pregnancies, and mental illness.
