Literary Fiction · Free kit
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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Demon Copperhead Printables
Get the full printable pack on Etsy, or print individual pages from Bingo, Discussion Questions, and Hosting.
Copperhead sticker sheet
Die-cut stickers inspired by copper wire, a red bandanna, a wave, a kite, and a porch railing — for journals or meeting favors.
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Favorite quote cards
Blank cards for the line that stayed: the prizefighter, save-or-be-saved, the ocean's sandy beard, or whatever your group underlined in Lee County.
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Lee County cheat sheet
A one-page who-is-who for Demon, Bonnie, the Peggots, Maggot, Fast Forward, Tommy, Angus, Dori, June, U-Haul, and Betsy — plus which name is a Dickens echo — so the meeting does not spend ten minutes on the family tree.
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Book club invite
Printable invite with the kit's keep-one-labor question, a content note, and meeting details.
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Character superlatives ballot
Vote Demon vs Angus vs June vs Fast Forward in categories that will start arguments, then tally out loud.
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Review sheet
Likes/dislikes for pace, the Dickens frame, the ending's drive to the water, tears-to-humor ratio, and who you think did the saving. Room for a content-note check-in.
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