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Champion, 2017 APA Audie Honours - Nonfiction From a former marine and Yale Regulation School graduate, a robust profile of growing up in an unhealthy Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the battles of America's white working course. Hillbilly Elegy is a separate and personal evaluation of any culture in turmoil - that of white working-class Us citizens. The decline of this group, a demographic of our own country that is slowly and gradually disintegrating over 40 years, has been reported on with growing occurrence and alarm but hasn't before been discussed as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance explains to the true history of what a social, local, and class drop feels as though when you were born with it hung around your neck of the guitar. The Vance family history begins ideally 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 desires of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They brought up a middle-class family, and finally their grandchild (the writer) would graduate from Yale Regulation School, a conventional marker of these success in obtaining generational upward freedom. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays away, we learn that is only the brief, superficial version. Vance's grandparents, his aunt, his uncle, his sister, and most of all his mother battled profoundly with the demands of these new middle-class life and were never in a position to fully get away the legacy of misuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of these part of America. Vance piercingly shows how he himself still provides around the demons of these chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir using its share of laughter and vividly multi-colored numbers, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. Which is an urgent and troubling deep breathing on the loss of the American fantasy for a large segment of this country.
