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Angela Mogin asked this question about Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis:
After reading this book, I find that any empahty I might have had for the people depicted in the book has disappeared. They seem self-destructive in the extreme. Does anyone else feel that way?
Yvonne Page No, I believe one has to live in this kind of environment to empathize. Sure we all make poor choices however some of us have been privileged and neve…moreNo, I believe one has to live in this kind of environment to empathize. Sure we all make poor choices however some of us have been privileged and never seen things this book describes. Read "Evicted" by Matthew Desmond.(less)
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Hillbilly Elegy
by J.D. Vance
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