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Disclaimer: I am only halfway through the book but I feel compelled to write a review. I live in Eastern Kentucky and have my whole life. I am well-acquainted with Jackson and the other handful of locations in Kentucky the author mentions and the issues he introduces about these communities in between the episodes of his personal family tragedy. I am just not sold on the idea that the author, as a boy born and raised in Ohio to a woman born and raised in Ohio, should really be the one to speak on these issues that are prevalent in KENTUCKY and the surrounding areas. The situations are vastly different and people around here would laugh at him for calling himself a hillbilly when he grew up a rich boy in Ohio. I think the issues plaguing us poor Appalachian people shouldn't and can't be explained by anyone outside of this group since they are so unique to our situations.