Another recommendation from Charlie Stella and Gonzalo Baeza.We don't do much non-fiction here at MRB, but when something gets a strong recommendation from a friend of MRB, I'm inclined to check it out. I was actually surprised our library had this book.
This is collection of essays on various topics connected to Appalachia, its geography, heritage, politics, civil (and some no-to civil) disobidence, the 2016 election, life, ills, history, successes, and failures. As well as some of the reasons why this region, so intimately connected to coal, is rightly and wrongly labeled as Trump Country.
In large part, Catte's book is in response to JD Vance's 2016 Hillbilly Elegy: a Memoir that has been both praised and vilified (and is in preproduction to be directed by Ron Howard. How Hollywood interprets Vance's book should be interesting).
A sociological presentation of a misunderstood region. Those who've read Vance's book probably need to look at another side of the coin.
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