Hillbilly Elegy

how it deserved to look: like the work of
a third-grader who had slacked off a bit.
I went to bed expecting to wake up the
next morning, give my mediocre
presentation, and call it a day. The
science fair was a competition, and I
even thought that, with a little
salesmanship, I could advance to the
next round. But in the morning I
discovered that Mom had revamped the
entire presentation. It looked like a
scientist and a professional artist had
joined forces to create it. Though the
judges were blown away, when they
began to ask questions that I couldn’t
answer (but that the maker of the collage
would have known), they realized