Hillbilly Elegy_ A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

My name is J.D. Vance, and I think I should start with a confession: I find the existence of the book you hold in your hands somewhat absurd. It says right there on the cover that it’s a memoir, but I’m thirty-one years old, and I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve accomplished nothing great in my life, certainly nothing that would justify a complete stranger paying money to read about it. The coolest thing I’ve done, at least onpaper, is graduate from Yale Law School, something thirteen-year-old J.D. Vance would have considered ludicrous.