Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

An instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller and a #1 Washington Post bestseller, Demon Copperhead is an Oprah Book Club Selection. It is author Barbara Kingsolver’s tenth bestseller! Ron Charles wrote in the Washington Post of this novel, “May be the best novel of 2022. . . .Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, this is the story of an irrepressible boy nobody wants, but readers will love.” This novel is told in the voice of Damon Fields, a red head born in a trailer in Lee County, Virginia, to a mother who is an addict. Early on, he acquires the nickname, Demon Copperhead. The setting is thus the very Appalachian county where the author, Barbara Kingsolver has lived for decades on a farm with her professor husband. In her acknowledgements, Kingsolver writes. “I am grateful to Charles Dickens for writing David Copperfield, his impassioned critique of institutional poverty and its damaging effect on children in his society.” “An epic…brimming with vitality and outrag