Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy - 9781946684790

In Hillbilly elegy, J.D. Vance described how his family moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan while navigating the collective demons of the past. The book has come to define Appalachia for much of the nation. This collection of essays is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow cast over the region and its imagining. But it also moves beyond Vance's book to allow Appalachians to tell their own diverse and complex stories of a place that is at once culturally rich and economically distressed, unique and typically American. -- adapted from back cover

• | Author: Anthony Harkins, Meredith McCarroll, Anthony Harkins
• | Publisher: West Virginia University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 13, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 432 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1946684791
• | ISBN-13: 9781946684790