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J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy is a memoir about his life growing up in Ohio as the child of a working-class family with roots in Appalachia. Vance uses his experiences in a dysfunctional family to talk about the problems with what he calls hillbilly culture. He says that hillbilly culture is mired in laziness, drug use, and learned helplessness. Hillbillies claim to be committed to hard work, but Vance believes they actually refuse to work at available jobs, miring them in poverty.

Don't miss this summary of J. D. Vance's best-selling memoir, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. Vance's audiobook offers a thoughtful and introspective look at his hillbilly past while opining on larger lessons for the poor, white working class as a whole. This Sumoreads summary offers key takeaways, themes, and analysis to distill Vance's powerful story that is both a personal triumph and a commentary on American society.