Growing Up Hard in Harlan County

This classic memoir is "an absorbing tale" of life in Appalachian Kentucky during the Great Depression (The Washington Post).

G.C. "Red" Jones's classic memoir of growing up in rural eastern Kentucky during the Depression is a story of courage, persistence, and eventual triumph. His priceless and detailed recollections of hardscrabble farming, of the impact of Prohibition on an individualistic people, of the community-destroying mine wars of "Bloody Harlan," and of the drastic dislocations ...