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Book Review of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir
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J. D. Vance gives us the story of his life. His family, "hillbilly's", move from Kentucky to Ohio to escape the devastation that they have grown up with, to essentially become the working middle class. Unfortunately, the "hillbilly" mentality never seems to go away.
J. D. grew up with a Mom who probably was trying her hardest to do the best she knew how to raise her daughter, Lindsay and her son. But she still had that mentality, and could never seem to find her way out of that.
J. D.'s grandparents, Papaw and Mamaw, always incentivized J. D. to try to educate himself and get out of the lifestyle that the entire neighborhood was experiencing.

This is the absolute epitomy of the trials of being working-class Americans striving to reach a higher goal.