katie’s Reviews > Compound Fracture > Status Update

"If you grow up in West Virginia, there's mainly two ways to think about the place. The first is you hate it and want to get out as soon as possible. This is the option that liberals love; they devour voyeuristic think pieces about Trump Country and our obsession with voting against our own best interests, titter condescendingly about how anybody with potential would never stay here long. And yeah, sure, a lot of people here are conservative assholes carrying Confederate flags. ... So from an objective standpoint, I get it. But I'm the second. The only way you'll ever get me to leave this state is in a body bag. For all its problems, it's mine. For all the overdose deaths, environmental disasters, and reactionary politics, West Virginia is mine. The Twist Creek Calamity is mine, the highest rate of trans kids in America is mine, the population crushed under the boot of a right-wing government are mine. Even if I don't like people, it's hard not to give a shit about people as a whole.