Book overview
Eighteen-year-old Jake Carter thought he knew what came next: college, work, and a future that made sense.
Then his father loses his job. The savings disappear. The family home is gone.
Jake, his parents, and his sixteen-year-old sister Emily move into an old travel trailer near a shopping mall. Suddenly, food, electricity, privacy and money are no longer things they can take for granted.
Then Jake finds a cracked phone.
What begins as an attempt to understand social media develops into something none of them expected. Views become income. Attention creates opportunities. Artificial intelligence gives Jake new tools to work with. But the more their lives move online, the harder the questions become.
How much of a family's struggle belongs on the internet? Is attention really opportunity if somebody always pays for it? Can AI extend what a person can do without replacing their ability to think? And when Jake finally has choices again, must he choose between education and technology-or can he choose both?
GEN Z 67: We Are Homeless follows one family through financial collapse, homelessness and rebuilding in a world shaped by social media, algorithms and artificial intelligence.
A contemporary young-adult story about family, resilience, technology, education and learning to question the world rather than simply accepting it.
Think. Question. Explore. Learn.
