~ Trade Paperback
~ Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - 2023
~ New Release - 2022
Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield based on his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to the children in his society, and as these problems have not yet been solved in ours Barbara Kingsolver set out to transpose his epic novel into her own place and time.
The resulting Demon Copperhead enlists all of Dickens' anger and compassion to speak for a new generation of lost boys, and for all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can't imagine leaving behind.
“An Appalachian David Copperfield, Demon Copperhead reimagines Dickens’s story in a modern-day rural America contending with poverty and opioid addiction. Both exuberant writers of social novels with a strong political message and a concern for the lower classes, Kingsolver’s novel sweeps you along just as powerfully as Dickens' original does.” -- New York Times