Title of the Book: Hillbilly ElegyAuthor: J.D Vance
Number of Pages: 257
Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
Review:
Let's just start off by saying this book combats the hardest part of our society and some parts are not for the faint of heart. Abuse, drugs, alcohol, and violence all play a pretty large part in J.D Vance's life that is shared in “Hillbilly Elegy”. There are no words that I can put together to really give this review of what it deserves.
J.D Vance allows readers to see a side of life that most of the middle class and upper class in today's world never thinks about. The “hill people” aka redneck and lower class struggle with basics needs and family ties. The stress that is developed is taken out with anger, aggression, and addiction. J.D mother is/was a lunatic, his father wasn’t in the picture and his mamaw raised them when their mother wasn’t around( rehab or jail). Not many can say they have to deal with that. Then to make the story, even more catching he beat his odds for success and became a lawyer. Who would have guessed?
I am one that has had to deal with this kind of life and warning if you can relate to a rough childhood this book will take you on an emotional rollercoaster. The detail is extreme when it needs to be to really show how the author felt. I mean like extreme, to the point where the reader can feel the gut-wrenching anxiety building up that goes along with it. Nothing like running through a cornfield from the highway to reach an unknown house hoping they will hide you away from your mom until the cops can get there. Not many books can make a person feel like this but you have now been warned that this one can and will. As you read this you can feel the tone develope once he has been placed in a safe place. Like the process of how he needs to relearn habits; like not getting out of the car and beating someone up for cutting him off so that he can start to live in a normal world. Causing readers to really indulge in the fact of the trauma that he has been put through.
If you need a book to either A) relate too. That you aren't the only one that has had a crappy childhood and you can succeed in life. Or B) see a part of lives that many do not know how to acknowledge or realize are happening around them; this is the book for you. It’s very engaging and does a great job of covering so much of his life that it really allows anyone to have a good read, as long they can follow the story plot.
J.D Vance allows readers to see a side of life that most of the middle class and upper class in today's world never thinks about. The “hill people” aka redneck and lower class struggle with basics needs and family ties. The stress that is developed is taken out with anger, aggression, and addiction. J.D mother is/was a lunatic, his father wasn’t in the picture and his mamaw raised them when their mother wasn’t around( rehab or jail). Not many can say they have to deal with that. Then to make the story, even more catching he beat his odds for success and became a lawyer. Who would have guessed?
I am one that has had to deal with this kind of life and warning if you can relate to a rough childhood this book will take you on an emotional rollercoaster. The detail is extreme when it needs to be to really show how the author felt. I mean like extreme, to the point where the reader can feel the gut-wrenching anxiety building up that goes along with it. Nothing like running through a cornfield from the highway to reach an unknown house hoping they will hide you away from your mom until the cops can get there. Not many books can make a person feel like this but you have now been warned that this one can and will. As you read this you can feel the tone develope once he has been placed in a safe place. Like the process of how he needs to relearn habits; like not getting out of the car and beating someone up for cutting him off so that he can start to live in a normal world. Causing readers to really indulge in the fact of the trauma that he has been put through.
If you need a book to either A) relate too. That you aren't the only one that has had a crappy childhood and you can succeed in life. Or B) see a part of lives that many do not know how to acknowledge or realize are happening around them; this is the book for you. It’s very engaging and does a great job of covering so much of his life that it really allows anyone to have a good read, as long they can follow the story plot.
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