The book was also picked by Oprah for her book club this year. While it isn't necessary to read Dickens’ 'David Copperfield' prior to reading 'Demon Copperhead', those who have read both can surely notice the how the author has brought in her own reimagination of the story in modern times.
Kingsolver’s realistic characters and storytelling will not only grab the reader's attention, but will also move them. In the process, he not only survives but also grows-up as a person. But with a fierce will to survive, Damon braves all the odds- the down-side of foster care, poverty and child labour, poor schools, athletic success, drug abuse and addiction, love and loss. While his mother is in and out of rehab centres, Damon is raised in foster care. Damon is born to a drug-addict teenage single mother, while his father is dead. It follows the protagonist Damon Fields, nick named Demon Copperhead due to his copper-coloured hair.
Set in modern-day southern Appalachia in America, 'Demon Copperhead' is a coming-of-age story. Titled 'Demon Copperhead', this is a fascinating reimagining of Charles Dickens’s classic 'David Copperfield'. If you’d like to join the group, email for more details.Author Barbara Kingsolver is back with a new novel this year. Suffused with truth, anger and compassion, Demon Copperhead is an epic tale of love, loss and everything in between. The wonder is in how far he’s willing to travel to try and get there. For Demon, born on the wrong side of luck, the affection and safety he craves is as remote as the ocean he dreams of seeing one day.
‘Family’ could mean love, or reluctant foster care. For a generation growing up in this world, at the heart of the modern opioid crisis, addiction isn’t an abstraction, it’s neighbours, parents, and friends. In the southern Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, poverty isn’t an idea, it’s as natural as the grass grows. The book chosen for the last Cricklereaders of the year is Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead.ĭemon Copperhead is a once-in-a-generation novel that breaks and mends your heart in the way only the best fiction can.ĭemon’s story begins with his traumatic birth to a single mother in a single-wide trailer, looking ‘like a little blue prizefighter.’ For the life ahead of him he would need all of that fighting spirit, along with buckets of charm, a quick wit, and some unexpected talents, legal and otherwise.
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