Hillbilly Elegy J.D. Vance Memoir Family Culture Crisis Paperback Afterword 2018

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance offers a powerful and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—the white working-class Americans of the Rust Belt. This New York Times bestseller explores the struggles of upward mobility through the lens of the author's own family history, moving from the hills of Kentucky to the post-war industrial towns of Ohio. This Harper paperback edition includes a new afterword, providing a poignant and timely reflection on the social, regional, and class decline affecting a large segment of the country.