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 bro