A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author Name: J.D. Vance
- Book Genre: Adult, Autobiography, Biography, Biography Memoir, History, Memoir, Nonfiction, Politics, Sociology
- ISBN # 9780062300546
- Edition Language: English
- Date of Publication: 2016-6-28
- PDF File Size: 1.8 MB
- EPUB File Size: 1.1 MB
Like most small children, I learned my home address so that
if I got lost, I could tell a grown-up where to take me. In
kindergarten, when the teacher asked me where I lived, I
could recite the address without skipping a beat, even
though my mother changed addresses frequently, for
reasons I never understood as a child. Still, I always
distinguished “my address” from “my home.” My address
was where I spent most of my time with my mother and
sister, wherever that might be. But my home never
changed: my great-grandmother’s house, in the holler, in
Jackson, Kentucky.
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Jackson is a small town of about six thousand in the heart
of southeastern Kentucky’s coal country. Calling it a town is
a bit charitable: There’s a courthouse, a few restaurants—
almost all of them fast-food chains—and a few other shops
and stores. Most of the people live in the mountains
surrounding Kentucky Highway 15, in trailer parks, in
government-subsidized housing, in small farmhouses, and in
mountain homesteads like the one that served as the
backdrop for the fondest memories of my childhood.
Jacksonians say hello to everyone, willingly skip their
favorite pastimes to dig a stranger’s car out of the snow,
and—without exception—stop their cars, get out, and stand
at attention every time a funeral motorcade drives past. It
was that latter practice that made me aware of something
special about Jackson and its people.
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