Hillbilly Elegy

With Yale friends, it was a greasy public
health crisis.
These aren’t exactly major
problems, and if given the option all
over again, I’d trade a bit of social
discomfort for the life I lead in a
heartbeat. But as I realized that in this
new world I was the cultural alien, I
began to think seriously about questions
that had nagged at me since I was a
teenager: Why has no one else from my
high school made it to the Ivy League?
Why are people like me so poorly
represented in America’s elite
institutions? Why is domestic strife so
common in families like mine? Why did
I think that places like Yale and Harvard