Avishay Ben-Sasson-Gordis: Folks are posting their “better than hillbilly elegy” reading suggestions. Add yours

Folks are posting their “better than hillbilly elegy” reading suggestions. Add yours

Throwing one other new one out here - Jon Corcoran's wonderful memoir about growing up gay in a very complicated West Virginia evangelical family.

No Son of Mine: A Memoir a book by Jonathan Corcoranbookshop.org This product has no description

This essay, & the book it's about (Appalachian Reckoning), written in response to Vance's book.

Hillbillies Need No Elegy — THE BITTER SOUTHERNERbittersoutherner.com In the new book “Appalachian Reckoning,” dozens of mountain voices combine to talk back to J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” arguments. Today, an exclusive story from its co-editor and a powerful essay...

Appalachian Reckoning edited by Harkins & McCarroll

This is a great one! bookshop.org/p/books/anot...

Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place a book by Neema Avashiabookshop.org "Commands your attention from the first page to the last word." --Morgan Jerkins

Oh oh! Brian Broome’s “Punch Me Up to the Gods” about blackness, masculinity and growing up in Western Pennsylvania. Punch Me Up To The Gods: A Memoir a.co/d/fAzuyN5

Punch Me Up To The Gods: A Memoir: Broome, Brian: 9780358695257: Amazon.com: Booksa.co Punch Me Up To The Gods: A Memoir [Broome, Brian] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Punch Me Up To The Gods: A Memoir

"What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia" by Elizabeth Catte, written largely as a rebuttal to Vance, a fantastic quick read

The back of a bottle of Head & Shoulders if you're on the toilet and you forgot your phone.

Anything by Barbara Kingsolver, especially Prodigal Summer and Demon Copperfield! Fiction, but based in reality.

Not specifically Appalachian, but many of the people portrayed are there: Dying of Whiteness, Jonathan Metzl.

Literally anything by David Joy. (holy shit, and this is how I'm realizing he released a new book last year)

Came here to post this.

Confederates in the Attic

Great book, highly recommend

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