An Oprah's Book Club Selection • An Instant New York Times Bestseller • An Instant Wall Street
Journal Bestseller • A #1 Washington Post Bestseller Demon is a voice for the ages?akin to Huck
Finn or Holden Caulfield?only even more resilient.? ?Beth Macy author of Dopesick May be the
best novel of 2022. . . . Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking this is the story of an
irrepressible boy nobody wants but readers will love.? (Ron Charles Washington Post) From the
acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees a brilliant novel that enthralls
compels and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity
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.
