Hillbilly Elegy

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis is a memoir by J. D. Vance about the Appalachian (rural) values of his Kentucky family and their relation to the social problems of his hometown of Middletown, Ohio, where his mother's parents moved when they were young... Vance credits his Yale contract law professor Amy Chua as the "authorial godmother" of the book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillbilly_Elegy