The Bad Poor: Race, Class, and the Rise of Grit Lit by Mitch Ploskonka, Scott Romine (Series edited by) Memoir Lexie can't help but find

Lexie can't help but find the attention comforting—despite her own professional boundaries

When the well-connected wife of Jed’s new boss introduces her to influential friends—a curator here

But when Irene’s love

While created as means to an end

colonization and rebellion

The Bad Poor: Race, Class, and the Rise of Grit Lit by Mitch Ploskonka, Scott Romine (Series edited by) Memoir Lexie can't help but findThe Bad Poor examines the rise of Grit Lit, a movement in contemporary southern literature written by and about poor southern whites. Examining issues of genre, race, and culture, Mitch Ploskonka traces the emergence of this iconoclastic mode through its major authors to reveal a literary cultural identity rooted in difference, marked by resistance to respectability and class performance, and shaped by reckoning with the legacies of whiteness and