ashley’s Reviews > Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis > Status Update

“We’re more socially isolated than ever, and we pass that isolation down to our children. Our religion has changed –built around churches, heavy on emotional rhetoric but light on the kind of social support necessary to enable poor kids to do well.”

“My primary aim is [not to prove a problem] to tell a true story about what that problem feels like when you were born with it hanging around your neck.”