Hillbilly Elegy

HILLBILLY  – A MEMOIR OF FAMILY AND A CULTURE IN CRISIS: Traditionally, an elegy is a poem or song of lamentation. Although neither a poem nor a song, Hillbilly Elegy is certainly a lament. Vance mourns for the “ordinary” family he never had as well as for the poor Scots-Irish culture of Appalachia (and diaspora […]