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Hillbilly Elegy 180: I was witnessing a phenomenon that social scientists call ‘brain drain’—people who are able to leave struggling cities often do, and when they find a new home with educational and work opportunities, they stay there. Hillbilly Elegy 176: I struggled a bit at first [...] and I got my ass chewed. Hillbilly Elegy 137: If Mamaw could drop $180 on a graphing calculator [...] then I had better take schoolwork more seriously. Hillbilly Elegy 72: It was like we were living among land mines—one wrong step, and kaboom. Hillbilly Elegy 45: Papaw wanted Jimmy to get an education instead of slogging it out in the steel mill. Hillbilly Elegy 139: [T]hey allowed people with good credit to run grocery tabs, some of which surpassed a thousand dollars.