![]() ![]() ![]() Kingsolver is a master storyteller who deftly weaves her tale about Demon Copperhead, who is born to an unwed, teenaged, drug-addicted mother and quickly finds himself navigating the foster care system. Whether it is today’s drug ravaged Appalachia or Dickens’ London with its institutional poverty, children are victims who must overcome huge obstacles in order to survive. Her protagonist, like Dickens’, is left to navigate a society where children are powerless, unseen and must fight for survival.ĭemon Copperfield may have been created 180 years after David Copperfield, but as Kingsolver spins her compelling and complex tale, the reader comes to realize that when it comes to poor people, especially children, not much has changed. ![]() In Demon Copperhead, Kingsolver reimagines Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield and sets her story in modern-day Appalachia. She has authored some of the best books I’ve read over the past several years: The Poisonwood Bible Unsheltered Flight Behavior and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle to name a few. ![]() It’s always thrilling when I hear that Barbara Kingsolver has written a new book. ![]()
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