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Hillbilly Elegy

a Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Oct 20, 2018momakek rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
This book was recommended to me and something I might never have picked up. I see the ratings are all-over-the- place and I can understand why. It is more like a documentary within a story. It was very interesting for me to get a different point of very of these "Hillbillies" that I never really even thought about. This was this persons experiences that might be very different from another point of view (see below). While reading I visioned Detroit and other places where poverty has erased whole towns and helped me to make sense of these types of places. Also I could relate some of the experience of Irish communities with those features in this book. So I can recommend the read if you want to learn something outside of your normal life experience. Another reader recommended two books that he/she thought a better perspective of these folks: Ramp Hollow and What are you Getting Wrong about Appalachia.