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

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“You’ll not read a more important book about The us this year.“—The Economist

“A riveting book.”—The Wall Street Journal

“Essential reading.”—David Brooks, New York Times

From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing have a look at the struggles of The us’s white working class

Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.

The Vance circle of relatives story begins confidently in postwar The us. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class circle of relatives, and in the end their grandchild (the writer) would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility.

But as the circle of relatives saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that this is only the short, superficial version. Vance’s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother, struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, and were never in a position to fully escape the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their a part of The us. Vance piercingly shows how he himself still carries around the demons of their chaotic circle of relatives history.

A deeply moving memoir with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility in point of fact feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.

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