The book was a commercial success ... Released just months before the 2016 election, “Hillbilly Elegy” was seen by reviewers as an analysis of the culture of white working class voters ...

Hillbilly Elegy is set in the 1980s ... author Jennifer Senior called the book “a compassionate, discerning sociological analysis of the white underclass that has helped drive the politics ...

J.D. Vance, 39, was only 31 when he published “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and ... And my heart went out to its young author. In the book, Vance explored the grim reality of the ...