Hillbilly Elegy

parking lot to show Lindsay what life
without me would look like, it was my
sister’s fit of sorrow and rage that
brought Mom back immediately. During
explosive fights between Mom and
whatever man she let into our home, it
was Lindsay who withdrew to her
bedroom to place a rescue call to
Mamaw and Papaw. She fed me when I
was hungry, changed my diaper when no
one else did, and dragged me
everywhere with her—even though,
Mamaw and Aunt Wee told me, I
weighed nearly as much as she did.
I always saw her as more adult than
child. She never expressed her
displeasure at her teenage boyfriends by