Free e textbook downloads Hill Women: Finding

Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains by Cassie Chambers

• Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
• Cassie Chambers
• Page: 304
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9781984818911
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

Download eBook

Free e textbook downloads Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains PDF by Cassie Chambers

Overview

After rising from poverty to earn two Ivy League degrees, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the strong “hill women” who raised and inspired her, and whose values have the potential to rejuvenate a struggling region—an uplifting and eye-opening memoir for readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Educated. Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, Owsley County is one of the poorest counties in both Kentucky and the country. Buildings are crumbling and fields sit vacant, as tobacco farming and coal mining decline. But strong women are finding creative ways to subsist in their hollers in the hills. Cassie Chambers grew up in these hollers and, through the women who raised her, she traces her own path out of and back into the Kentucky mountains. Chambers’s Granny was a child bride who rose before dawn every morning to raise seven children. Despite her poverty, she wouldn’t hesitate to give the last bite of pie or vegetables from her garden to a struggling neighbor. Her two daughters took very different paths: strong-willed Ruth—the hardest-working tobacco farmer in the county—stayed on the family farm, while spirited Wilma—the sixth child—became the first in the family to graduate from high school, then moved an hour away for college. Married at nineteen and pregnant with Cassie a few months later, Wilma beat the odds to finish school. She raised her daughter to think she could move mountains, like the ones that kept her safe but also isolated her from the larger world. Cassie would spend much of her childhood with Granny and Ruth in the hills of Owsley County, both while Wilma was in college and after. With her “hill women” values guiding her, Cassie went on to graduate from Harvard Law. But while the Ivy League gave her knowledge and opportunities, its privileged world felt far from her reality, and she moved back home to help her fellow rural Kentucky women by providing free legal services. Appalachian women face issues that are all too common: domestic violence, the opioid crisis, a world that seems more divided by the day. But they are also community leaders, keeping their towns together in the face of a system that continually fails them. With nuance and heart, Chambers uses these women’s stories paired with her own journey to break down the myth of the hillbilly and illuminate a region whose poor communities, especially women, can lead it into the future.

More eBooks: Download full google books This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division: The Oral History link, Ebooks downloads The Home Edit: A Guide to Organizing and Realizing Your House Goals (Includes Refrigerator Labels) by Clea Shearer, Joanna Teplin in English download link, Kindle libro electrónico descargado Vegan Christmas: Over 70 Amazing Recipes for the Festive Season 9781787132672 FB2 RTF link, Pdf ebooks for free download The Dead Ringer: An Agatha Raisin Mystery read pdf, Free books read online without downloading The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850-1960 (English literature) by Dan Jones, Marina Amaral 9781786692689 here, Book forums downloads Los Compas escapan de la prisión by El Trollino download link, Free download ebook epub Europe's Top 100 Masterpieces: Art for the Traveler download link,