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The King James Virgin is a memoir of a young girl living in Eastern Kentucky during the last days of November 1963. Elaine Hatton is a nine-year old third grader, growing up in a poor, strict Pentecostal Holiness family. She is becoming more aware of her poverty and her outsider status as a member of a religious group that is often ridiculed. She longs to have nice material things and dreams of growing up to be rich and glamorous. The assassination of President Kennedy is the first world event to emotionally affect her. This memoir explores her integration of the national tragedy into her reality. The primary focus is on her inner experience, strongly informed by the cultural milieu in which she lives. But her story also provides a unique perspective of the region’s poorest population before the implementation of the social policies of the War on Poverty. This memoir contributes to Appalachian literature a voice seldom heard.
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