a novel Kingsolver, Barbara creator author. text Bildungsromans. Historical fiction. Bildungsromans. Historical fiction. Bildungsromans. Fiction. Historical fiction. Novels. Historical fiction. Bildungsromans. Historical fiction. Novels. nyu 2022 2022 First edition. monographic eng

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548 pages ; 24 cm The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this 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. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he 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. adult Barbara Kingsolver. "Oprah's book club 2022"--Jacket n-us-va Teenage boys Fiction Orphans Fiction Mothers Death Fiction Opioid abuse Fiction Poverty Appalachian Region Fiction FICTION Coming of Age Mothers Death Opioid abuse Orphans Poverty Teenage boys Teenagers Fiction Orphans Fiction Opium Fiction Lee County (Va.) Fiction Appalachian Region Fiction Appalachian Region Virginia Lee County PS3561.I496 D46 2022 813.54 KIN/D 9780571376483 9780063251922 0063251922 2022441858 NjBwBT 230327 20231007122549.0 23036180 eng