A review by marcella
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance

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. 
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