The book reached the top of The New York Times Best Seller list after its publication in June 2016, with the book playing into conversations about the US presidential election and what role white working class communities played in Donald Trump’s campaign.
Amy Adams will star in Netflix‘s adaptation of Hillbilly Elegy, directed by Ron Howard.
However, Hillbilly Elegy has also faced criticism, with Salon‘s Jared Yates Sexton writing that Vance ”totally discounts the role racism played in the white working class’s opposition to President Obama.”
Adams will next be seen in another adaptation of a New York Times bestseller, Woman in the Window, starring across from Julianne Moore in the Joe Wright-directed film.