Unveiling Hidden Truths: Emilee Hackney’s Appalachian Memoir Reveals What Lies Beneath the Surface
The wailing and miracles inside the sanctuary supplement a childhood grounded in fantastic stories: grandparents who whisper magic words and swear they’ve seen snakes swallow birds whole, a father who faces off with a bear and kills him with a silver bullet. Yet Hackney resists making her childhood any kind of idyll. When her father worked as a coal miner, he and her mother regularly raided not just Hackney’s piggy bank but her younger brother’s to pay the rent. Financial salvation arrived via a job as a coal mine manager; suddenly, her family regularly drove miles to stock up at TJ Maxx and Walmart, only to get side-eye at school. “The shame of being poor was nothing like the shame of being rich.”
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