Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, J. D. VanceTHE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, AND GABRIEL BASSO "You will not read a more important book about America this year."The Economist "A riveting book."The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."David Brooks, New York Times From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing

That opinion has not endured

now an aged and wealthy man

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE

long buried secrets emerge and lifelong allegiances are put to the test

Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions

they can also lead us astray

For those who have left their hometown--or the place they once called home--the question

controversies and disappointments with an extraordinary candour

and illustrators who use animal imagery in their work

The result is a pandemic on a scale never before seen in our lifetimes

emerging to dedicate herself with seemingly endless vigour to her art and her writing

National Book Award finalist