I had a mixed reaction to this book. I enjoyed the personal element and family anecdotes, but they were interspersed with 'sociobabble' - analyses and comment that I felt would have been better suited to a thesis.Truth be told, I've stopped more than once, because I was bored. I'm also finding this ...
I have a lot of feelings about this. I relate to it on a lot of levels. I come from a proud redneck family. My relatives are mostly in Arkansas. I come from a broken home, my mom was an abusive alcoholic. There were times we rolled change for food. But with that said, this book, for all its compar...
I’ve been meaning to read Hillbilly Elegy for a while, but I didn’t want to spend the $11.99 that they were charging on amazon. If I had caught it on sale for $1.99 or so, I probably would’ve bought it, but that never happened. It bubbled back to the top of my consciousness after reading that Ron Ho...
The second part of my childhood was spent growing up in the northern end of Applachia (Pike County, Pennsylvania - the last town before you hit New York state or the Delaware River and New Jersey). I too come from struggling, working poor parents that divorced when I was 15 after years of emotional ...
Interesting perspective from poor white America, and a heartbreaking one. It reinforced my understanding that people would be much more aligned by class than by race in America if racial tribalism weren't being actively stoked by those in power (who have every reason to ensure that the masses do not...
This is an interesting and very readable memoir by an author who grew up in small-town Ohio; it gets its name from the fact that his family was originally from Kentucky, and he grew up with a strong connection to Appalachia. It is worth reading for the author’s story, though not so much for the “cul...
What a story! I appreciate the author’s honesty as he tells his story of his own upbringing and how that influenced his life. I didn’t expect to get such an attachment to this novel but as the author jumped around from place-to-place as a child, I became alarmed and disturbed at where he might land ...
I really recommend this book. People who don't live in these areas should read it to understand the people that do, and those that do live there should read because it could make a difference in their future outlooks. I know people just like the ones in the writers family. I don't think anyone co...
A bluntly honest reflection of the author's life and his family history dealing with being "hillbillies." The poverty and violence is not sugar-coated. He reflects on what is considered normal for their people and the change, generally for the worse, that has happened since his youth with the cultur...
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