#Hillbilly Elegy

“And if you trace a flawed narrative about Appalachia back far enough, you’ll often find someone making a profit.”

What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte

December 15, 2019 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

I definitely only picked this up because it was a recommended selection for Read Women challenge task 4 – read a book about or set in Appalachia. I was hoping to find something fictional, but here we are. Elizabeth Catte’s What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia is written as a rebuttal to J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy, a book I have not read and have no intention of reading. Watching from the cheap seats I’ve seen Elegy get pulled apart as Vance’s inconsistencies and frankly […]

Apparently We Can’t All Get Along

March 15, 2017 by reginadelmar Leave a Comment

As previously noted by Bonnie, Hillbilly Elegy has been promoted as the book you must read to understand Trump voters. If that’s what you’re looking for, I think you will be disappointed. This book is mostly personal memoir with a liberal amount of social and political observation included. Given the fact that he’s worked in the Senate and written for David Frum, I wouldn’t be surprised if J.D. Vance is planning a political career in the future and this is his first autobiography telling his […]

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