Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver
5/5
Harper 548 pages October 18, 2022
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is a modern retelling of David Copperfield. Born to a teenage single mother in a single-wide trailer, Demon navigates foster care, poverty, and the opioid crisis with fierce wit and resilience. A Pulitzer Prize winner that illuminates forgotten America.
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Kingsolver took Dickens and dropped him into Appalachian opioid country, and the result is devastating, brilliant, and necessary. Demon's voice is so alive and sharp it's easy to forget you're reading fiction. All 548 pages deliver a lump in the throat and fire in the belly. This book doesn't just tell you about poverty and addiction — it makes you FEEL it. Pulitzer well earned. Read this one, friends.
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