A Struggle Detailed In His Memoir

J.D. Vance's Mother's Drug Addiction

A Struggle Detailed in His Memoir

Hillbilly Elegy

J.D. Vance's mother, Beverly Vance, struggled with drug addiction, as detailed in his 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. The memoir, which became a bestseller, tells the story of Vance's family and his own upbringing in Middletown, Ohio. In the book, Vance describes his mother's addiction to prescription painkillers and her struggles to overcome it.

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