Niven's epoch was the early-to-mid-'80s (she graduated in 1986), when Big Hair walked the earth. Generations, on the other hand, can be very different. Which is exactly what Niven concluded during her years at Richmond High School in semi-rural Indiana – the subject of her memoir “The Aqua Net Diaries.” She concluded as much, chatting with a secondary-school student in the wilds of Siberia, learning that Russian teenagers think their hometowns are too small and dull, school is boring, there's nothing to do, and there aren't enough interesting boys. All happy families are alike, Tolstoy famously remarked, and according to Jennifer Niven, all high schools are as well.
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