im reading hillbilly elegy for the first time rn (i found it on the street)
its like 50% him playing off terrible shit his family did and shrugging it off as “our culture”
he falls asleep in a pew at his grandma’s funeral
the entire family mobilizes to inspect every car in the area at gunpoint cuz they were convinced he had been kidnapped by a pedophile
AT A FUNERAL
like 2 pages later he lovingly recalls when his grampa busted into a womens bathroom at a rest stop with a shotgun because his sister was “taking too long” and he was convinced she was being assaulted
