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

As a geographer from the edge of Appalachia (and we - including the university he references - pronounce it App-a-latch-a) with years of life experiences living there, I agree a lot of his points and do not think that he "sold out his people." He talked honestly of what he saw, learned, and knew growing up in very unstable living conditions.
He talked about "welfare queens" and ...