Hillbilly Elegy
could borrow money from the grandparents. Indeed, I recall many winter conversations in which Mom pleaded with Mamaw and Papaw t ...
store in town sold out. It was expensive and, as I was only two, unnecessary. But Lindsay still remembers the day wasted searchi ...
in the new year to save them from the financial indiscretions of the old one. Income tax refunds were the ultimate backstops. “W ...
I assumed that rich people celebrated Christmas just like us, perhaps with fewer financial worries and even cooler presents. Yet ...
her Christmas gifts to Middletown’s needy. Shockingly, her parents obliged: They didn’t define their family’s Christmas holiday ...
just wanted to scream. But I have to give it to them: Their children are happier and healthier, their divorce rates lower, their ...
be without them? I think back on my freshman year of high school, a grade I nearly failed, and the morning when Mom walked into ...
Thinking about it now, about how close I was to the abyss, gives me chills. I am one lucky son of a bitch. Not long ago, I had l ...
which was a little out of character for a kid who ended every sentence with “please” or “thank you.” He finished his food quickl ...
unexpectedly. He hadn’t lived with her in years, so outsiders might imagine that her death was easier to bear. Those folks are w ...
existed. When we met, his mother had already permanently lost custody. In his short life, he has already experienced multiple in ...
community empowers him with a sense that he can control his own destiny or encourages him to take refuge in resentment at forces ...
what needs to be done to help a kid like Brian? Are we tough enough to build a church that forces kids like me to engage with th ...
disappearing—even when locked up— from her front porch. She feared answering her door toward the end of her life because an able ...
of the world to have a chance. I don’t know what the answer is, precisely, but I know it starts when we stop blaming Obama or Bu ...
chairs. I’m there alone with Lindsay and Mamaw, when all of a sudden Mom charges through the room, tossing tables and chairs as ...
movie villain, and a mean teacher. Mamaw and Lindsay always make an appearance, and they always make it to the exit just ahead o ...
Casper, with whom I’d lost my temper earlier in the night. There was no Lindsay and no Mamaw. And I was the monster. I chased my ...
water, and when I returned, Casper was staring at me, wondering what on earth his human was doing awake at such an odd hour. It ...
Acknowledgments Writing this book was among the most challenging and rewarding experiences of my life. I learned much I didn’t k ...
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