Van Boorean's Hill

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...