Always a fan of friends giving me their favorite books to
read once I am finished with the RA Favorites.
So I ventured into the life of the hillbilly and finished JD Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. I had great reviews from people on the book,
so high expectations. Note to self in
the future, this is dangerous as you may not get what you hoped for…. Enter Hillbilly
Elegy. OK, compelling story of a
young man who grew up in rural Appalachia.
No money, no father (well, you’ll see that he did have fathers, but no
real father), a mother who has an addict, and too many family issues to go
over. JD shares many of the barriers he
faced from youth to finishing law school at Yale, where being in “the network”
changed the outcome. Did I learn
anything, sure, but I had the feeling that every millennial has a story to
tell, but few have the platform to share it.
This hillbilly did, so congrats.
He should be commended for the great accomplishments….. paying for
school through his military service, (and graduating in two years from
college!!) and then enter Yale for his JD (same as his initials). It’s a nice tale, but not sure how much I
walked away from the hillbilly culture, outside of this one person’s perspective. Reminded me of the book Running with Scissors. Tough
and crazy family life. I wanted more and
didn’t get it. So goes expectations.
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