
Hillbilly Elegy
A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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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 PublishersHarsh truths told beautifully
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Working class story from a boys perspective
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Very open about his family and about his own areas of improvement.
JD wants to get along with his multiple step fathers. To survive he becomes a pleaser: interested in fishing for one stepfather and in earrings for another.
Habits like eating a lot of processed sugar or fighting with their loved ones is a part of the culture he grew up with. It is super hard to change.
Most touching for me is how he explained how he, with the help of his wife, changed his mental model: How he started to really positively interact with his loved ones, how he started to control his temper even in extremely difficult situations, like driving.
Must read for everyone who is not a perfect human being,
Importance of grandparents, will, love and networks in a defunct society
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Brilliant
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moving history of a family
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The story is the best part
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Beeindruckende Biografie
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Makes you feel empathy for the people involved.
I totally agree with the realization, that it is not only the conditions of our life, but also the will of each and everyone of us to change them. It takes a lot of strength, to change our believes and our lives.
An inside look behind the American Dream.
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Ein Einblick in das Familienleben der Working Class Amerikas
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A thought provoking read.
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