Hillbilly Elegy

cost of the trip, causing Lindsay and me
to bicker about which one of us should
go (no doubt I was being a brat). Mom
became progressively angrier and then
snapped. What happened next was no
surprise: There was a lot of screaming,
some punching and driving, and then a
stopped car on the side of the road, full
of two sobbing kids. Mamaw intervened
before things got out of hand, but it’s a
miracle we didn’t crash and die: Mom
driving and slapping the kids in the
backseat; Mamaw on the passenger side,
slapping and screaming at Mom. That
was why the car stopped—though Mom
was a multitasker, this was too much. We
drove home in silence after Mamaw