Memoir tracing J.D. Vance's upbringing in Middletown, Ohio, and Appalachian Kentucky, examining cycles of poverty, family dysfunction, addiction, and the cultural norms of the white working class.
First-person narrative anatomy of Appalachian and Rust Belt working-class culture; frames social immobility through personal testimony rather than abstract statistics; provoked a national reckoning with class in America.
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