When Will the Rural Mother Rise Up?
While men like J.D. Vance get to follow their dreams, women are left behind to pick up the pieces
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10 min readDec 8, 2020
In the spring of 2016, the Kenyon Review published my essay “On Poverty,” about being a writer and single parent living below the poverty line in rural Appalachia. I wrote about how difficult it is for those who are not wealthy to have access…
