‘Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks or white trash. I call them neighbours, friends and family.’ But what do the real people of Appalachia think of Vance’s account of their homeland ...

J.D. Vance's claim to fame was his book, "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis," in which he painted a polarizing picture of Appalachia. The book topped the New York Times ...

An instant bestseller, Hillbilly Elegy told the story of Vance’s turbulent childhood with a drug addicted mother and ...

If they were to eventually be interred there, he explained, they would mark the sixth generation of his family buried in the region he called his “ancestral home”: Appalachia. Since the release of his ...

As legend has it, two neighboring families in the backwoods of Appalachia waged a crude ... story of mountain lust and violence between “hillbillies,” the Hatfield-McCoy feud was a microcosm ...

An instant bestseller, Hillbilly Elegy told the story of Vance’s turbulent childhood with a drug addicted mother and hard-working grandparents (“Mamaw and Papaw”) who were from Appalachia ...