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02635aam a2200481 4500 001 364F4FDC46AB11EC99ED60D12BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211116010055 008 210817s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1984818937 020 $a 9781984818935 040 $d TxAuBib $d SILO 100 1 $a Chambers, Cassie. 245 1 $a Hill women : $b finding family and a way forward in the Appalachian mountains. 264 1 $a New York : $b Ballantine Books, $c 2020. 300 $a 279 p., illustrations ; $c 21 cm. 520 $a Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, Owsley County, Kentuky, is one of the poorest places in the country. Buildings are crumbling as tobacco farming and coal mining decline. But strong women find creative ways to subsist in the hills. Through the women who raised her, Cassie Chambers traces her path out of and back into the Kentucky mountains. Chambers's Granny was a child bride who rose before dawn every morning to raise seven children. Cassie would spend much of her childhood with Granny and Granny's daughter Ruth in the hills of Owsley County. With her "hill women" values guiding her, she went on to graduate from Harvard Law. But while the Ivy League gave her opportunities, its privileged world felt far from her reality, and she moved home to help rural Kentucky women by providing free legal services. Chambers breaks down the myth of the hillbilly and illuminates a region whose poor communities, especially women, can lead it into the future. - from Publisher. 541 $d 20210817. 600 14 $a Chambers, Cassie. 600 14 $a Chambers, Cassie. $x Family. 600 14 $a Chambers family. 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY $x Women. 650 $a Country life $z Owsley County. $z Owsley County. 650 $a Country life. 650 $a Rural women $z Owsley County $z Owsley County $x Social conditions. 650 $a Rural women $x Social conditions. 650 4 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural. 650 7 $a Social conditions. 650 $a Families. 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. 650 $a Mountain life $z Appalachian Region, Southern. 650 $a Mountain life. 651 4 $a Southern Appalachian Region. 651 4 $a Owsley County (Ky.) $v Biography. 651 4 $a Owsley County (Ky.) $x Social conditions. 651 $a Kentucky $z Owsley County. 651 $a Kentucky. 655 7 $a Biography. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. 941 $a 2 952 $l SVPC124 $d 20211221164825.0 952 $l BNPD611 $d 20211116014710.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=364F4FDC46AB11EC99ED60D12BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search