"Kingsolver said she felt that it was her duty to tell a different story of Appalachian life than the one that Vance presented in the book. It used the same old victim-blaming trope... I disagree. And that's my job, to tell a different story."
"Vance, who writes that Appalachian culture encourages social decay instead of counteracting it, says this upbringing is central to his political ideology and thinking. Many Appalachian authors, like Kingsolver, have worked tirelessly to combat what they feel is a misleading and even harmful depiction of the region."
"Her novel Demon Copperhead, a fictional window into the same communities, was named one of the New York Times' best books of the century just days ahead of the Republican National Convention. Last year, it won a Pulitzer Prize."
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