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100 1  Chambers, Cassie,|eauthor. 
245 10 Hill women :|bfinding family and a way forward in the 
       Appalachian Mountains /|cCassie Chambers. 
250    First edition. 
263    2001 
264  1 New York :|bBallantine Books,|c[2020] 
300    xii, 279 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references. 
520    "Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, Owsley County is 
       the poorest county in Kentucky and the second poorest in 
       the country. Buildings are crumbling and fields sit vacant,
       as tobacco farming and coal mining decline. But strong 
       women are finding creative ways to subsist in their 
       hollers in the hills. Cassie Chambers grew up amidst these
       hollers, and through the women who raised her, she traces 
       her own path out of and back into the Kentucky mountains. 
       Cassie's Granny was a child bride who rose before dawn 
       every morning to raise seven children. Despite her poverty,
       she wouldn't hesitate to give the last bite of pie or 
       vegetables from her garden to a struggling neighbor. Her 
       two daughters took very different paths: strong-willed 
       Ruth--the hardest-working tobacco farmer in the county--
       stayed on the family farm, while spirited Wilma--the sixth
       child--became the first in the family to graduate high 
       school, then moved an hour away for college. Married at 
       nineteen and pregnant with Cassie a few months later, 
       Wilma beat the odds to finish school. She raised her 
       daughter to think she could move mountains, like the ones 
       that kept her safe but also isolated from the larger 
       world. Cassie would spend much of her childhood with 
       Granny and Ruth in the hills of Owsley County, both while 
       Wilma was a student and after. With her "hill women" 
       values guiding her, Cassie went on to graduate from 
       Harvard Law. But while the Ivy League gave her knowledge 
       and opportunities, its privileged world felt far from her 
       reality, and she moved back home to help her fellow rural 
       Kentucky women by providing free legal services. 
       Appalachian women face issues that are all too common: 
       domestic violence, the opioid crisis, a world that seems 
       more divided by the day. But they are also community 
       leaders, keeping their towns together in the face of a 
       system that continually fails them. With nuance and heart,
       Cassie uses these women's stories paired with her own 
       journey to break down the myth of the "hillbilly" and 
       illuminate a region whose poor communities, especially 
       women, can lead it into the future"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
600 10 Chambers, Cassie. 
600 10 Chambers, Cassie|xFamily. 
600 30 Chambers family. 
600 37 Chambers family.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00218763 
650  0 Country life|zKentucky|zOwsley County. 
650  0 Rural women|zKentucky|zOwsley County|xSocial conditions. 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.|2bisacsh 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.|2bisacsh 
650  7 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural.|2bisacsh 
650  7 Families.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01728849 
650  7 Rural women|xSocial conditions.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01101909 
650  7 Social conditions.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919811 
651  0 Owsley County (Ky.)|vBiography. 
651  0 Owsley County (Ky.)|xSocial conditions. 
651  7 Kentucky|zOwsley County.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01203160 
655  7 Biography.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423686 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft 
776 08 |iOnline version:|aChambers, Cassie.|tHill women.|bFirst 
       edition.|dNew York : Ballantine Books, [2020]
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