{"product_id":"appalachian-reckoning-a-region-responds-to-hillbilly-elegy","title":"Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy","description":"\u003cp\u003e2020 American Book Award winner, Walter \u0026amp; Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e2019 Weatherford Award winner, nonfiction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the rise of its author as a media personality, J. D. Vance’s  Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis  has defined Appalachia for much of the nation. What about  Hillbilly Elegy  accounts for this explosion of interest during this period of political turmoil? Why have its ideas raised so much controversy? And how can debates about the book catalyze new, more inclusive political agendas for the region’s future?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAppalachian Reckoning  is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow  Hillbilly Elegy  has cast over the region and its imagining. But it also moves beyond  Hillbilly Elegy  to allow Appalachians from varied backgrounds to tell their own diverse and complex stories through an imaginative blend of scholarship, prose, poetry, and photography. The essays and creative work collected in  Appalachian Reckoning  provide a deeply personal portrait of a place that is at once culturally rich and economically distressed, unique and typically American. Complicating simplistic visions that associate the region almost exclusively with death and decay,  Appalachian Reckoning  makes clear Appalachia’s intellectual vitality, spiritual richness, and progressive possibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":52891264614687,"sku":"A2321","price":11.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0957\/0546\/5119\/files\/ebook_1577_2b73481291.jpg?v=1789632728","url":"https:\/\/lumobook.store\/products\/appalachian-reckoning-a-region-responds-to-hillbilly-elegy","provider":"LumoBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}