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Hillbilly Elegy

by J. D. Vance

  • FINISHED
  • Finished April 2017
  • First published 2016

memoir

Vance writes about growing up in a working-class Ohio family with roots in Appalachian Kentucky.   He describes family instability and the social problems of the region, and how he ended up at Yale Law School.

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