Welcome to an exciting new episode of Next Best Adaptation.

I'm Nicole Ackman and I'm your host.

And I'm joined today by two very exciting members of Next Best Picture who are new to Next Best Adaptation, Michael Schwartz.

Hello, everyone.

And Cody Derrick.

I'm so excited to talk about how do you pronounce it.

A book. New territory for me. Oh, man. Well, in our last

episode, we talked about Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile and the upcoming film adaptation

by Kenneth Brana. And today we are back to discuss Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance. So Hillbilly Elegie is a memoir that is focused on

Vance's grandparents, his parents, and his childhood and early adulthood. But it's largely a book

about the people of the Appalachian mountain region and how they have had to move to other places

to find work, but they still maintain their hillbilly, which

is his word, not mine, values.

And he imparts a lot of information about this culture through recalling his own personal

family history, particularly of his grandparents who left Kentucky for Ohio.

And the movie's being made into a film starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close, which we will talk

about in a bit. But first, let's talk about the novel. So what are your first thoughts on it?

So I heard a lot about Hillbilly Elogy four years ago when it first came out. And this was leading

up to the 2016 presidential election. And it was a real lightning

route at that point. You had people from the left and the right talking about what it meant

and how it perfectly encapsulated these rural American voters in Appalachia, but also in the Midwest

in general, and how it was the snapshot of their lives. And it was a type of

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