“Elegies are poems dedicated to the dead. The American hillbilly(assuming we can use that word for the white working class) isn't dead; she is just poor.” AppalachiaElegyHillbilly Book:Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy Source: Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
“He seems to be giving his people a (mostly) gently worded lecture on their lack of willingness to work even when it appears almost pointless to do so. For that reason, the book should have been titled Hillbilly Reprimand, because Vance doesn't want to mourn his hillbilly family. He wants to make them good proletarians like they allegedly were in the twentieth century.” AppalachiaHillbilly Book:Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy Source: Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy