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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.

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Originally posted by Mary Anna:

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

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Originally posted by Mary Anna:

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Originally posted by Steve Miller:

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Originally posted by Mary Anna:
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