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to your family's experiences in the area. The movie's cast is excellent, Glenn Close, Amy Adams especially and from the trailer it looks interesting.

After the book's release following Trumps' election in 2016, there was praise from both the left and right, and also a backlash from native writers and locals. Elizabeth Catte who is one of the most effective at dispelling myths and narrating exploitation of the region wrote a compelling piece about 'Hillbilly Elegy.' https://www.bookforum.com/print/2405/a-new-book-challenges-the-myth-of-trump-era-appalachia-19146

Many people objected to Vance's portrayal of poor, working class whites as inherently lazy and willing to use their govt. checks to buy steaks and large screen TVs, following the writer's conservative, libertarian views which deem people in poverty as largely responsible for their own fate. The book also helped to promote the fallacy of Appalachians as the reason Trump won the election.

Vance didn't avail himself of any of the academic and popular works written about the area. The book is regarded as a thrown together work that enhanced negative stereotypes about Appalachians popularized by the media for decades, a 'new deliverance' as one said. The reviews for both the book and film that I've read haven't been positive.