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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

J.D. Vance · memoir

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@dominik · read in 2016

The tale of a Yale-trained lawyer and his childhood in the hard scrabble backcountry of southern Ohio and northern Kentucky, used as a prism through which to view hillbillies, white working-class America, and the middle class. An illustrative collision of cultures, and of the havoc those collisions can bring upon lives.