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As the rest of America struggled during the Great Depression, the denizens of Hopewell Valley, Kentucky, were unmoved-they had always struggled.
Henry Van Boorean made his own way-backstreet boxing, bootleg wine-making, and homemade fertilizer (spiked with roadkill). Along with his polio-stricken wife, two sons, a temperamental rooster, and a cast of eccentrics, he withstood the mid-twentieth century on a rundown farm in the foothills of Appalachia.
Van Boorean's Hill is the anti-Waltons. Unrue deftly subverts a century of Appalachian stereotypes with warmth, depth, and delicious humor...