I am leading a book group reading about the direction of our national experience. Have we gone or are we seriously off the rails? To some this might appear naive; to others Hansel and Gretel. One only has to try to get somewhere without breaking an axle to know our physical infrastructure is crumbling. The political environment isn't doing much better and as for the climate, Chicken Little might finally be right!
These are issues to be explored best through reading and I encourage you to join in the discussions. The group is currently reading Hillbilly Eligy by J. D. Vance, which looks at the struggles of America's white working class through the author's own story of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town.
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of poor, white Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for over forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. In Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hanging around your neck.
Copies of this book is currently available for loan at the Hartland Public Library. Our next discussion is Thursday, May 2 at 6:30 PM at this Library. Please bring your wisdom and join in this important dialog.
Chuck Fenton
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