Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver · 2022
Literary Fiction · ranked #83 in category
Winner · The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2023Winner · The Women's Prize for Fiction, 2023
Damon Fields — nicknamed Demon Copperhead for his copper hair and his will — grows up in rural Appalachian Virginia in the opioid epidemic, ageing out of foster care into addiction, loss and an attempt to survive a world that has been systematically stripped of its economic future. Kingsolver's Pulitzer Prize-winning retelling of David Copperfield is the most urgent American novel about the opioid crisis.
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