Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver’s Pulitzer-winning novel transplants Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield to the mountains of southern Appalachia. Narrated by Demon, a boy born to a teenage single mother in a trailer, it follows him through foster care, child labor, addiction, and loss as the opioid epidemic ravages his community. Ferociously alive and angry, the book gives a scathing, tender account of poverty in modern America.