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

Any good?

I wrote a brief review. Honestly, I had a much better impression of his acumen and ideals before I read this.

The tl;dr is essentially: he grew up in a white-trash setting (not a hillbilly), his mom did drugs, he lucked out living with his grandma. Joined the Marines, lucked out getting into Yale Law on a big scholarship. Rubbed elbows with the right people, and is now where he’s at.

Essentially, he stumbled into success in a very atypical manner. It’s not wholly inspiring or really even insightful. Just straight memoir work.