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Hillbilly Elegy

A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

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Hillbilly Elegy

Auteur(s): J. D. Vance
Narrateur(s): J. D. Vance
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Winner, 2017 APA Audie Awards - Nonfiction

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 look at the struggles of America'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 40 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 family story begins hopefully in postwar America. 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 family, and eventually their grandchild (the author) would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility.

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

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

©2016 J. D. Vance (P)2016 HarperCollins Publishers
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The Author seems to understand well, by experience, the need of "a thumb on the balance" to improve opportunities for all children in a "Jesus loving" democracy. He seems to have the wisdome, and the power, to love his neighbors. May God show him the true North.

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Totally worth the buy - great read.

The author gives an excellent explanation of the differences between hillbillies and everyone else. Well done!

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this book is incredible. what an amazing story. 10/10. JD Vance leads a fascinating life.

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Deep, moving, heartbreaking and very transferable to other cultural pockets around the world.

I have lived in different countries, different cultures with similar pockets of people to the one JD Vance masterfully describes. My mother and sister as teachers and me as a physician worked inside the core of some of them. We understood that we could not change the culture however, we could with empathy and respect help providing a "route map" and a hand up...

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Really Opened My Eyes

I was truly enlightened to the plight of the working class and Hillbilly culture in the US. It’s tragic and I believe what the author says about strong and healthy family, education and community being the basis and structure for any kind of improvement in their plight. But these tragedies aren’t just in those communities- they are in many of the indigenous communities around the world. Where government can make most of the difference is in making education, free healthcare and family planning THE priority. Thank you to the author.

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Profoundly candid look at a systemic problem!

The Authour captures an all to common problem in a number of todays societies accross a number of cultures. I enjoyed considering how the mantality described in his story has contributed to todays political, social world climate. Great story! #Audible1

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good book

good book, but the conclusion on how to fix the hillbilly region is kinda lacking. What is proposed is not very tangible.

thank you for making this book possible

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Better than expected

A great read from a point of view I didn’t know I didn’t know about.

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Thank you for telling your story!

This is an amazing memoir that is truly inspiring. Despite the author claiming at the very beginning that he hasn’t done anything particularly special in his life, I believe it is quite the opposite. His story is emotional, courageous, and inspirational. Wishing you the best of luck in your life J.D.

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Moved deeply by this book

Thank you for writing your book. I’m sure you receive many individuals relating to your story. I am one of those people. Many differences, but still many similarities.
I agree, we need to stop blaming government, and step up.
I am just to the point, of those nightmares lessening, and am 70 years old.
I’m glad you found your way, and had a support system with your grandparents.
Your novel has spoke to me volumes and I hope I can continue to do better! Again, Thank You

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