Alex Madden’s Reviews > Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island > Status Update

"If Tangiermen could take action themselves, they'd have done so years ago"

Continuing to muddle through because I'm getting a ton of great local history out of this, but the author perspective keeps reminding me of all the boneheaded sympathetic but terrified op-eds rediscovering American rural conservatism in response to when Hillbilly Elegy was published. Hard not to toss the damn book off the deck in frustration