PW’s Novel Ideas Book Discussion

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September 14, 2023 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
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2023-09-14T19:30:00-04:00
PW's Novel Ideas Book Discussion

PW’s Novel Ideas Book Discussion, 6:30pm, Room 260

Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize – Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction

Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival.

Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities

Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara

Kingsolver enlists Dickens’ anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all

those born into beautiful, cursed places they can’t imagine leaving behind.

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