{"id":45799,"date":"2022-11-09T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=45799"},"modified":"2022-10-22T14:01:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T19:01:28","slug":"oprahs-latest-book-club-pick-demon-copperhead-by-barbara-kingsolver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/oprahs-latest-book-club-pick-demon-copperhead-by-barbara-kingsolver\/","title":{"rendered":"Oprah’s Latest Book Club Pick: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver"},"content":{"rendered":"

Join\u00a0Simply Held<\/a> to have certain celebrity book club picks automatically put on hold for you: Reese Witherspoon, Jenna Bush Hager, and Oprah Winfrey. While Reese and Jenna generally announce a new title each month, Oprah\u2019s selections are more sporadic. She has just announced hew newest selection: Demon Copperhead<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by Barbara Kingsolver! Reminder that if you join Simply Held, you can choose to have these titles automatically put on hold for you.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Oprah Winfrey has selected\u00a0Demon Copperhead<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Barbara Kingsolver.<\/p>\n

Curious what\u00a0Demon Copperhead <\/em><\/strong><\/a>is about? Check out the following description provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n

From the New York Times bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behavior, a brilliant novel which enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero\u2019s unforgettable journey to maturity.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Demon Copperhead is set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. It\u2019s the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father\u2019s 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.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u2019 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\u2019t imagine leaving behind.<\/em><\/p>\n

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