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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
35 reviews
rowandl's review against another edition
dark
slow-paced
3.5
This book confronts the Appalachian opioid crisis, but it's a bit reductive. I don't believe it gives a full picture of the area. This is a memoir above all else.
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Drug use
charlotte03's review against another edition
emotional
informative
fast-paced
3.0
His view on the influence of race in society is very one dimensional, and seems to miss the point that being white was one of the few privileges he had growing up and not that white male privilege discards hardships. However, his experience does highlight the inaccessibility to the valued cultural and social capital in society.
This should be seen as biography and not a sociological text. However, it would good to read alongside, and in addition to, sociological and political based books focusing on class and intersectionality.
This should be seen as biography and not a sociological text. However, it would good to read alongside, and in addition to, sociological and political based books focusing on class and intersectionality.
Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, and Violence
alsoapples's review against another edition
dark
funny
reflective
medium-paced
2.5
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Drug abuse, and Emotional abuse
Minor: Racism, Gun violence, and Sexual assault
marcella's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
fast-paced
3.0
Ends on kind of a weird note of personal responsibility also the government can't help us, we have to solve our own problems, even after he's acknowledged how the root of progress problems stems from jobs disappearing from industrial towns. I guess we have different politics because I found his descriptions of problems were emotive and honest, but his solutions were... confusing.
Still worth reading though. I haven't read much about class consciousness but this portrayed the tensions and uncertainties of financial/class awareness well.
Still worth reading though. I haven't read much about class consciousness but this portrayed the tensions and uncertainties of financial/class awareness well.
Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Child abuse
askannakarenina's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
2.0
I listened to J.D. Vance's narration of this book on Audible...I'm very conflicted about this book. On the one hand, Vance's narration of his own life experience is highly compelling, and he's tackling important and under-discussed issues from the position of a person who has lived through them. On the other hand, this book has faced a lot of criticism for placing the issues of Appalachia too much on the cultural habits of the people who live there, or for not placing enough blame on them. Vance is so proud of his own heritage, but so critical of that same culture, and I was in places quite angry with his tone or with the prescriptions he made. This book has been important in American political culture over the past few years, so I'm glad I read it, but I don't think it's something I will be revisiting.
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence
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