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02594aam a2200397 i 4500 001 712AD238F92F11ED9B9A064150ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230523010241 008 220928s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 0063282569 020 $a 9780063282568 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Kingsolver, Barbara, $e author. 245 1 $a Demon Copperhead : $b a novel / $c Barbara Kingsolver. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, $c [2022] 300 $a 548 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Oprah's book club $n 2022 selection 500 $a Series information from jacket. 520 $a 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. 541 $d 20230123. 650 $a Teenage boys $v Fiction. 650 $a Orphans $x Fiction. 650 $a Mothers $x Fiction. $x Fiction. 650 $a Opioid abuse $v Fiction. 650 1 $a Poverty $z Appalachian Region $v Fiction. 651 $a Lee County (Va.) $v Fiction. 651 $a Appalachian Region $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Bildungsromans. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. 655 7 $a Novels. 830 $a Oprah's book club $n 2022 selection. 941 $a 2 952 $l LEPI975 $d 20231006013509.0 952 $l VPPC384 $d 20230523011813.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=712AD238F92F11ED9B9A064150ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search