Hillbilly Elegy
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What’s it about?
A Yale Law grad returns to his Rust Belt hometown, grappling with the clash between his Ivy League success and the hillbilly code of his Appalachian roots.
You’ll learn
- The power of family loyalty
- How culture shapes poverty
- The limits of personal agency
- The cost of escaping your past