Hillbilly Elegy

An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.

• child abuse
• based on novel or book
• heroin
• drug addiction
• american dream
• overdose
• kentucky
• based on true story
• ohio
• yale university
• drug rehabilitation
• hillbilly
• based on memoir or autobiography
• single mother
• teenage boy
• law student
• grandmother
• appalachian
• 1990s
• appalachian mountains
• mother son relationship
• traditional family
• mother son estrangement
• childhood memory
• small town life