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While some of the portrayals in this book of people from Appalachia are accurate, to portray most as being alcoholics who regularly engage in physical violence in the family as normal is way off base. Most of our extensive Appalachian family and friends avoid alcohol use and frown upon those who imbibe, no matter if it is done in moderation. I am sorry the author’s family were brutal alcoholics but to paint the majority of those from Appalachia with same brush is ignorant and does not paint an accurate picture. It is a shame many believe this book to be an accurate portrayal of those from Appalachia. He speaks for himself only in this book, please do not accept this as how the majority of people from here are.