Book Riot Read Harder Challenge 2017: Read a book that is set within 100 miles of your location 
 After I finished this book, I thought to myself, "that's it?" Maybe I wasn't so impressed because I grew up in a similar area, knew similar families, and witnessed similar situations. Maybe this book wasn't really "for" me. Who knows. Ultimately, the half that focuses on the author's personal journey is more satisfying than the other half of the book where the author tries to prescribe things that worked for him and his family to cure what ails larger society in economic depressed areas of the country. Not to mention, the unacknowledged white privilege was staggering. Yes, you can have white privilege and be poor. (For example, (view spoiler)[don't tell me that had a Black mother tried to run off the road and kill her child that she would've been given a slap on the wrist and allowed to remain a part of her child's life. (hide spoiler)])