Just finished reading Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver.

Yowser, what a hard book to read.
I laughed, I cried, I cringed.
But unlike that wretched fake Hillbilly Elegy author, Kingsolver actually lived here and properly researched the difficulties and joys of Appalachian life.
Everyone in the book, I knew/know a real-life counterpart.
And too many of them died the same way as in the book.
And some of them managed to unentangle themselves and went on to survive and sometimes thrive and help those still struggling.