![]() ![]() This empathetic and colorful protagonist has a voice that’s uniquely his own (I don’t know HOW Kingsolver transported herself into his fictional brain so masterfully) in telling of his lifelong fight for survival amidst so much of the absolute worst in life.ĭemon Copperhead offers the reader a firsthand look at the struggles facing many Appalachian Americans today in a very humanizing way. It’s a one-of-a-kind coming-of-age story told by Demon Copperhead himself, who grew up poor, in the foster system, and completely surrounded by addiction and death. He foreshadows that he was “marked from the get-out,” and yearns for superheroes and the ocean. An homage to David Copperfield and a statement on modern institutional poverty, it begins with the unforgettable violent birth of an Appalachian boy to an addicted and single teen mom in their mobile home. ![]() A New York Times “Ten Best Books of 2022”ĭemon Copperhead is, quite simply, a modern masterpiece.Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.Frequently Asked Questions About Character Driven Novels.Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Marie Semple.This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel.The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid.The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.Olive Kitteridge and Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout.The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E.The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne. ![]()
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