I thought the story was sad but well written. However I struggled thinking how does a 30 year old write a memoir? There is so much he hasn't seen and his writing showed that. This isn't a hillbilly crisis, it's happening in so many cultures across the US. He would describe something seen in rural Alabama or Pennsylvania steel and coal towns. I'd love to hear his perspective again, perhaps with a little less profanity, when his own kids are 20.