When J.D. Vance was twelve, his mother, struggling with substance abuse, sped down the highway and told him that she was going to crash the car and kill them both. When she slowed down, Vance fled, his mother was arrested, and the family became the subject of a Child Protective Services (CPS) investigation. As Vance-the-memoirist describes it, he feared foster care. He wanted to live with his…

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