Unveiling Hidden America: Lauren Hough’s Journey into the Heart of Modern Monsters
Hough talks to people across every imaginable political divide, and rather than flattening them into types, she insists on their full dimensionality. The forgotten places she drives through — left-behind towns, people who are largely invisible to the rest of the country — are rendered with generosity. She lets people be contradictory, frustrating, tender, wrong, and human. She has no use for the easy contempt road books so often serve up, the writer collecting characters to feel superior to. The book’s deepest conviction is that most of what divides us is manufactured, downstream of an obscene wealth disparity that pits neighbor against neighbor. Strip that away, and what’s left is a country full of people who are ultimately recognizable to one another.
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