Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
A #1 New York Times Best Seller and soon to be a Major-Motion Picture, Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but h...show more
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I am grateful the author shared his experience and tried to make sense of it in a public forum. Not many have and I found it quite helpful.
While I grew up far from Appalachia, this rhymed with aspects of my experience and made me wonder whether the author's attempt to locate these behaviors in the Scotch-Irish Appalachian tradition may be misplaced.
Quoting from another reviewer: "Perhaps there is a persistent culture of Appalachia that gets pass...read more
While I grew up far from Appalachia, this rhymed with aspects of my experience and made me wonder whether the author's attempt to locate these behaviors in the Scotch-Irish Appalachian tradition may be misplaced.
Quoting from another reviewer: "Perhaps there is a persistent culture of Appalachia that gets pass...read more
Proof that even flowers can grow through cracks in the pavement. We are not eternally tied to how we grew up, or where for that matter
In retrospect, I would've never read this coward's book. "Kiss the Ring" J.D. Vance. Once a hillbilly, still a hillbilly. You now embrace an autocrat, and you have failed your people.
Such a great read! JD describes his childhood and all of the societal 'norms' of hillbilly life. He dives into why it is so very hard for anyone to breakout out of that culture. Highly recommend!!
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