http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2015/01/ben_metcalf_s_against_the_country_reviewed.html

Let’s say you are a writer sitting down to pen your first novel. Your narrator’s biography borrows from your own: He spends his early years in Southern Illinois before he is uprooted and dragged to the unyielding red clay of rural Virginia during the 1970s. To put it mildly, he doesn’t like it there. He doesn’t like it at all: not the land, or the heat, or the blackberries, or the snakes. Certainly not the people, most of whom he considers either “tool-belted speed freaks” or “bearded mediocrities.”