February Book Read- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

A Pulitzer Prize Winner. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

That’s been added to the title, and gratefully so. 

Barbara Kingslover as written this novel in Appellation english slang which is oh so fun to read. Demon Copperhead is a coming of age story written through the eyes of a young boy broken by circumstance, resurrected through ambiguous survival and finally rooted in resilience. 

Demon works his way through the foster care system since birth, weaving his own complex path surviving the death of his single parent, hitchhiking at age 11, and surprisingly finding a relative with no information but a nickname. This monumental relationship marks his uphill climb into adulthood, which he has been on since birth. A fierce story of beating all odds. 

From GoodReads.com "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.”