The Broken People of Nothingness Common ground with J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy  Having read excerpts of J.D. Vance’s book Hillbilly Elegy, I found him to be a “pretender” (or, as my Irish Mother would call him, a “phony”). But, there was some common ground. The death of J. D. Vance’s grandmother, Mamaw, is a poignant […]