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posted 15 December 2020 05:19 PMHide Post
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Originally posted by CHAS:
I thought the help was either, "It was just sufficiently sugar-coated for upper-middle-class white women to chat about in book clubs." or that it would make me feel shameful about something I did as a youth.


Honestly--both of those are true for me, too.

But if somebody's going to make me feel bad about myself, I prefer it to be someone who writes like Faulkner. Wink


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posted 15 December 2020 06:52 PMHide Post
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But if somebody's going to make me feel bad about myself, I prefer it to be someone who writes like Faulkner. Wink


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posted 15 December 2020 08:18 PMHide Post
What struck me about Hillbilly Elegy is that much of the time they lived in Ohio they were not poor. His grandfather had a good job at the (Alcoa?) plant, they bought new house, they bought new cars. His Mom was a nurse and presumably made good money as well.

There is more to this than poverty.


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posted 15 December 2020 11:56 PMHide Post
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My friends from Appalachia loathed the book and the movie, going so far as to post alternative books that they feel give a better picture of the area.


I'd like to see that list if you still have it.

Thanks!


One of my friends posted a link to this list. She's an English professor from Kentucky whose mother's family was from way back in the hills.

https://bookriot.com/books-about-appalachia/

Also, one of my MFA classmates ' father, Ron Rash, is the Parris Distinguished Professor in Appalachian Cultural Studies at Western Carolina University. He is a very distinguished writer of both fiction and poetry, often about Appalachia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Rash


Thank you! ThumbsUp


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