I’ve finally caught up with J.D. Vance’s much discussed bestseller, and I’m glad I did.  Vance’s memoir recounts growing up in Ohio and Kentucky, in a family on the lower rungs of the income and class scale.  He spends a lot of time and colour painting his family’s roots back in Kentucky, and then traces his parents’ move to suburban Ohio in search of a better life.  Despite the physical move, Vance writes that his family retains their ‘hillbilly’ values and are still culturally similar […]