Bastard Out of Carolina By:"Dorothy Allison" Published on 2005-09-06 by Penguin The Classic work of fiction that dramatically illuminates the lives described in current nonfiction bestsellers like J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy and Nancy Isenberg's White Trash The modern literary classic that has been compared to To Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye \ This Book was ranked 19 by Google Books for keyword birth certificate.