Emilee Hackney's Appalachian Life -- And Exile

And: My Appalachian Friends; Back to Blood

Emilee Hackney in an Appalachian vegetable garden, circa 2000 (source)

Ten years ago this summer, J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy burst onto the world, and became a publishing phenomenon (this July 2016 interview was what sent the Appalachian memoir into the stratosphere). A year or so on the NYT bestseller list. A movie deal. And the launching of the polit…