Book Group: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Please join me in discussing Demon Copperhead, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Barbara Kingsolver.

A modern retelling of Charles Dickens's David Copperhead, this is an engaging novel set in modern-day southern Appalachia amid the opioid crisis.

From the publisher:

Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.

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