Thanks for the read and the comment! I can only imagine how much the book means to someone from WV, given that I grew up as a working class kid in Alaska (about as far away from WV as can be imagined!), and the book rang true to my experience growing up in a similar time.
I enjoyed reading your take on Demon Copperhead and agree with you for the most part. My first pass though “DC” hit me emotionally - Demon and I would be very close in age if he wasn’t a fictional character. His struggles rang too true with my own experiences in southern WV.
I’ll reread DC from a more analytical place in the future but DC is written from a place that is deeply, culturally Appalachian. Hillbilly Elegy is barely skims that surface.
Thanks for the read and the comment! I can only imagine how much the book means to someone from WV, given that I grew up as a working class kid in Alaska (about as far away from WV as can be imagined!), and the book rang true to my experience growing up in a similar time.
I enjoyed reading your take on Demon Copperhead and agree with you for the most part. My first pass though “DC” hit me emotionally - Demon and I would be very close in age if he wasn’t a fictional character. His struggles rang too true with my own experiences in southern WV.
I’ll reread DC from a more analytical place in the future but DC is written from a place that is deeply, culturally Appalachian. Hillbilly Elegy is barely skims that surface.