Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. The International Bestselling Memoir Coming Soon as a Netflix Major

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERComing November 2020 as a major motion picture from Netflix starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close‘The political book of the year’ Sunday Times‘A frank unsentimental harrowing memoir … A superb book’ New York Post‘I bought this to try to better understand Trump’s appeal … but the memoir is so much more than that. A gripping unputdownable page-turner’ India Knight Evening StandardJ. D. Vance grew up in the hills of Kentucky. His family and friends were the people most of the world calls rednecks hillbillies or white trash.In this deeply moving memoir Vance tells the story of his family’s demons and of America ’ s problem with generational neglect. How his mother struggled against but never fully escaped the legacies of abuse alcoholism poverty and trauma. How his grandparents ‘dirt poor and in love’ gave everything for their children to chase the American dream. How Vance beat the odds to graduate from Yale Law School. And how America came to abandon and then condescend to its white working classes until they reached breaking point.Artwork used with permission from Netflix Inc.In this Sunday Times bestselling autobiography Vance explores the economic and social disparity in regional America. It's a cultural and ethnic history of the hillbillies a group often dismissed and overlooked yet whose story is integral to understanding the 20th century United States.For fans of Megan Phelps-Roper (Unfollow) Tara Westover (Uwolniona) Jeannette Walls (The Glass Castle) Ben Mezrich (Breaking Twitter) and Alex Preston (As Kingfishers Catch Fire).