12 Rounds in Lo’s Gym: Boxing and Manhood in Appalachia

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Questions of class and gender in Appalachia have, within the wake of the 2016 presidential election and the runaway success of Hillbilly Elegy, moved to the vanguard of national conversations about politics and culture. From Todd Snyder, a first generation college student turned college professor, comes a passionate statement on these themes in a circle of relatives memoir set in West Virginia coal country.
 
12 Rounds in Lo’s Gym is the tale of the writer’s father, Mike “Lo” Snyder, a fifth generation West Virginia coal miner who opened a series of makeshift boxing gyms with the goal of providing local at-risk youth with the opportunities that eluded his adolescence. Taking these hardscrabble stories as his start line, Snyder interweaves a history of the region, offering a smart analysis of the prices—both financial and cultural—of an economy built around extractive industries.

Part love letter to Appalachia, part rigorous social critique, readers might find 12 Rounds in Lo’s Gym—and its narrative of individual and community strength within the face of globalism’s headwinds—a welcome corrective to popular narratives that blame the ones within the region for their troubles. 

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