Christy by catherine marshall6/7/2023 ![]() The hillbilly caricature is awfully prevalent in movies and TV shows in particular, and naturally, people who actually live in the Appalachians are sensitive about this. You see, a lot of times, pop culture portrays the mountain folk of Appalachia as being half-witted and ornery and generally useless. And if you think that Appalachian mountainfolk weren't simultaneously excited for a big TV series to be all about people like their forebears, and also terribly apprehensive of how those forebears would be portrayed. It was such a BIG deal when that show aired, to the people where I lived right then! You see, I lived in western North Carolina, only a couple of hours from the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee where this book is set, and where the series was partially filmed. ![]() Which is why I have a TV-tie-in cover, of course. ![]() I'd read this once before, back in the mid-'90s when the TV series based on this book first aired. ![]()
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