Topic is Sleeping.
strugglebus (original poster member #55656) posted at 5:53 AM on Tuesday, June 29th, 2021
Since the topic is closed, I decided to start a new one to say: as a person who grew up in Appalachia, the book reads exactly like what it is, the slightly condescending narrative of a man who never lived there but did visit his granny there for the summers. He doesn’t back up anything with data and he can’t quite back up his conjecture with lived experience because he was a visitor there, an outsider.
If you would like to read something accurate, well researched and well written that actually represents that part of the country please pick up What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte.
BS -DDay: 9/26/16- Double Betrayal
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Topic is Sleeping.
