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Hill women : finding family and a way forward in the Appalachian Mountains / Cassie Chambers.

Chambers, Cassie, (author.).

Summary:

Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, Owsley County is the poorest county in Kentucky and the second poorest in 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. Chambers grew up amidst these hollers, and through the women who raised her, she traces her own path out of and back into the Kentucky mountains. With her "hill women" values guiding her, Chambers graduated from Harvard Law, but moved back home to help her fellow rural Kentucky women by providing free legal services. Here she breaks down the myth of the "hillbilly" and illuminates a region whose poor communities, especially women, can lead it into the future.-- Adapted from jacket

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781984818911 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 1984818910 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 9781984818935 (trade paperback)
  • Physical Description: xii, 279 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, [2020]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Trade paperback edition: 2021 Ballantine Books.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Subject: Chambers, Cassie.
Chambers, Cassie > Family.
Chambers family.
Country life > Kentucky > Owsley County.
Rural women > Kentucky > Owsley County > Social conditions.
Owsley County (Ky.) > Social conditions.
Owsley County (Ky.) > Biography.
Genre: Autobiographies.

Available copies

  • 2 of 3 copies available at Lehigh Valley Library System.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 3 total copies.
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Allentown Public Library 929.2 CHAM (Text) 34455006659854 Adult Nonfiction 1st FL Available -
Bethlehem Main Library 929.209 (Text) 33062009316838 Adult Nonfiction On Holds Shelf -
Easton Main Library 929.2 C444h (Text) 31901004406247 Adult Nonfiction Available -

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