From what you wear to what you do with your life, there seems to be a foundational obsession with being different in my generation. Every coming of age movie touts youth with tastes and habits that border on insane, rewrapped in witty dialogue and the beauty of Hollywood’s lovely faces—all in the name and defense of being different. Books, too, once a bastion of reason and depth of thought, have fallen into the same trap, relating characters that have little to no basis in re