Hillbilly Elegy

Steve, a soft-spoken man with a
temperament to match. I used to pray that
Mom would marry Steve because he
was nice and had a good job. But they
broke up, and she moved on to Chip, a
local police officer. Chip was kind of a
hillbilly himself: He loved cheap beer,
country music, and catfish fishing, and
we got along well until he, too, was
gone.
One of the worst parts, honestly, was
that Bob’s departure would further
complicate the tangled web of last
names in our family. Lindsay was a
Lewis (her dad’s last name), Mom took
the last name of whichever husband she
was married to, Mamaw and Papaw