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Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy by Anthony Harkins, Meredith McCarroll
4.5
challenging hopeful informative sad medium-paced

This is a wonderfully complex and thoughtful compilation. I learned a great deal about Appalachia and the wide variety of people which call it home, and feel inspired to try to connect more genuinely with some of my generational roots which run back there. 
In my opinion this book, with its multitude of voices, presents a much more engaging, developed, and moving picture of Appalachia than Hillbilly Elegy does.