ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) – Beth Macy is known for her award-winning career as a journalist with The Roanoke Times, as well as her best-selling books like “Dopesick,” “Truevine” and “Factory Man.”
But her latest book, “Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America” is more personal.
In it, Macy documents her childhood in Urbana, Ohio, her family’s struggle with poverty, and her own rise as a college student supported by a Pell Grant…