Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, 17 July | Event in Danbury | AllEvents

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Danbury Area Book Club 2.0

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Thu, 17 Jul, 2025 at 07:00 pm

Barnes & Noble (7 Backus Ave, Space E110, Danbury, CT)

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Thu, 17 Jul, 2025 at 07:00 pm (EDT)

Barnes & Noble (7 Backus Ave, Space E110, CT)

17 Backus Ave, CT 06810-7402, Connecticut, Danbury, United States

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Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Genres: Historical Fiction / Contemporary / Coming Of Age

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.


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Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, 17 July | Event in Danbury | AllEvents
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Thu, 17 Jul, 2025 at 07:00 pm