loved the conversational tone and the nuanced and evidence-driven discussion of the interaction of class stratification, race, culture, poverty and addiction.
im open to nonfiction/fiction recommendations
btw, I’ve alread read the glass castle by jeanette walls, and it is on my favorites list!
by Suspicious-String932
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Deborah Dundas’ On class was a good dive into those issues
Demon Copperhead by Kingsolver
Educated by Tara Westover
Fiction
When These Mountains Burn; Where All Light Tends To Go by David Joy
Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Memoir
Borrowed Finery by Paula Fox
The Liars’ Club by Mary Karr
Nonfiction
Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott
What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte
Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy edited by Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans