Tonstant’s review of Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy > Likes and Comments
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Amen!
Wonderful review! Just started reading this book and I already love it for its depth and representation.
Mary wrote: "Wonderful review! Just started reading this book and I already love it for its depth and representation."
Thank you.
I didn't see any interviews, but I read Hillbilly Elegy as part of a personal commitment to read at least some contemporary books. It was high on several lists (although I read it well after it came out and was popular). As someone whose parents are from a corner of Appalachia and who moved to an area with a brand-new Ford stamping plant for work, I don't think it works even as a memoir. I'll leave that at that.
I just started Appalachian Reckoning and wish I'd done what you did — skip the memoir and read the reaction. So far it's really good. So far it's speaking to my dislike of things like "social capital." I would hope genuine human bonds are or should be more than that. But here we are.
Did a Democrat group get together to get you to write this inaccurate hit piece?
Your purpose was to disavow a beautifully written book.
Apparently, you missed the mark because the book explains the reason the middle class and poverty class got stuck in their situation and couldn't get out of it. You act like they had a choice. He states that they did not.
Thanks for your closer reading, Italia. That’s my takeaway, too.
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Wonderful review! Just started reading this book and I already love it for its depth and representation.
Mary wrote: "Wonderful review! Just started reading this book and I already love it for its depth and representation."Thank you.
I didn't see any interviews, but I read Hillbilly Elegy as part of a personal commitment to read at least some contemporary books. It was high on several lists (although I read it well after it came out and was popular). As someone whose parents are from a corner of Appalachia and who moved to an area with a brand-new Ford stamping plant for work, I don't think it works even as a memoir. I'll leave that at that.I just started Appalachian Reckoning and wish I'd done what you did — skip the memoir and read the reaction. So far it's really good. So far it's speaking to my dislike of things like "social capital." I would hope genuine human bonds are or should be more than that. But here we are.
Did a Democrat group get together to get you to write this inaccurate hit piece? Your purpose was to disavow a beautifully written book.
Apparently, you missed the mark because the book explains the reason the middle class and poverty class got stuck in their situation and couldn't get out of it. You act like they had a choice. He states that they did not.
Thanks for your closer reading, Italia. That’s my takeaway, too.