An elegy is a “poem or song composed especially as a lament
for a deceased person”.
Things have clearly been tough for Appalachia’s white population during recent decades. The author describes his difficult upbringing by a single mom and his grandparents split between an impoverished mountainous area of Kentucky and a southern Ohio town with manufacturing jobs. Gradually, through the guidance of his grandparents, the discipline of the military, higher education, and a drive to pull himself up, the author defies the odds and leaves his hardknocks life behind.
Things have clearly been tough for Appalachia’s white population during recent decades. The author describes his difficult upbringing by a single mom and his grandparents split between an impoverished mountainous area of Kentucky and a southern Ohio town with manufacturing jobs. Gradually, through the guidance of his grandparents, the discipline of the military, higher education, and a drive to pull himself up, the author defies the odds and leaves his hardknocks life behind.
[This book seemed to take off after the election of 2016 with
people trying to understand the context of the Trump voter.]
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