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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Personally I thought the book was terrible and really overplayed WV stereotypes. I felt like she was an armchair anthropologist telling me what people from there are like. [/quote]

Kingsolver herself is from rural Kentucky and now chooses to live in SW Va. She’s intimately involved in these communities she’s talking about.

She gave a very interesting podcast with Ezra Klein (maybe?) on living there and “what democrats get wrong about these communities.

I thought it was a wonderfully written book and really enjoyed Demon as a character. [/quote]

As a democrat and POC, I learned so much about SW Virginia that I had never realized. It gave me great insight and much more empathy than I had previously for these communities. I swear, if only more people realized how the rich and powerful exploit our fears by turning different groups of poor or marginizalized people against one another so we can't come together to fight the real villains....[/quote]

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