In 2016, my cousin, who is more like an older brother to me, released a book called “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis.” “Hillbilly Elegy” made the No. 1 spot on the New York ...

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, J.D. Vance, HarperCollins, $27.99, 264 pp. Read this remarkable book: It is by turns tender and funny, bleak and depressing, and thanks to ...

Vance’s account of his childhood and adolescence in a self-described “hillbilly” family in a languishing Ohio mill town opens a window onto a world that Americans need to see and understand more ...

James David Vance, aka J.D. Vance, is the author of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, published on June 28, 2016. He is an American author, venture capitalist, and ...

What’s the big deal about this one? I must have been looking the other way in 2016 when J.D. Vance published his memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis.” The book took on ...

Hillbilly Elegy‘s plot synopsis: “J.D. Vance (Gabriel Basso), a former Marine from southern Ohio and current Yale Law student, is on the verge of landing his dream job when a family crisis forces him ...