Posted: Oct 04, 2017 2:55 pm
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance. I've got confused with the timeline and some of the characters but never the less I'm enjoying the story and learning some of American history and culture. Vance's family is from Jackson in Breathitt County, Kentucky and made the trip up to Middletown, Ohio to work in the steelmills like about a million other hillbillys did. It was a very disfunctional family, in fact the way he writes it every hillbilly family they knew were disfunctional.
His mother drove her car into a post and claimed it was an intended suicide. His mamaw rubbished the idea and said if she'd wanted to kill herself she'd just take one of mamaws guns. He lived on occasion with either his mother, his mamaw, his biological dad, his sister and even one of his ex-stepfathers to try and find a bit of stability in his life.
I never knew that hillbilly's are of Irish/Scottish descent. Breathitt, nicknamed Bloody Breathitt because it was the only county in the US to fullfil its WW1 military quota from volunteers. And some modern very bloody street justice.
His mother drove her car into a post and claimed it was an intended suicide. His mamaw rubbished the idea and said if she'd wanted to kill herself she'd just take one of mamaws guns. He lived on occasion with either his mother, his mamaw, his biological dad, his sister and even one of his ex-stepfathers to try and find a bit of stability in his life.
I never knew that hillbilly's are of Irish/Scottish descent. Breathitt, nicknamed Bloody Breathitt because it was the only county in the US to fullfil its WW1 military quota from volunteers. And some modern very bloody street justice.