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Demon Copperhead
Lee County, Virginia, at the start of the opioid years: Damon Fields is born on a trailer bathroom floor to an eighteen-year-old mother already underwater, and the neighbor who kicks the door in will later call him a little blue prizefighter. Everyone else calls him Demon Copperhead — copper-wire hair, a Melungeon father already dead at the Devil's Bathtub, a kid who keeps asking for the ocean. Kingsolver retells David Copperfield through a tobacco farm that bills itself as a home, a high-school football house, a feed-store love story, and a county where the pills arrived before the help did. The voice is funny on purpose. The ledger is not.
“Save or be saved, these are questions. You want to think it's not over till the last page.”
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