PULITZER PRIZE WINNER AND WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER

Oprah’s Book Club Pick: New York Times Readers’ Pick: The Top 100 Books of the Twenty-First Century • An Immediate New York Times Bestseller A Wall Street Journal Bestseller Right Away A New York Times “Ten Best Books of the Year” and a #1 Washington Post bestseller.

“Demon is a voice for the ages—like Holden Caulfield or Huck Finn, but even more resilient.” —Dopesick author Beth Macy

“Perhaps the year’s best novel.”… Readers will appreciate this story of an exuberant youngster who no one wants, which is equal parts painful and humorous. —The Washington Post’s Ron Charles

The National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters winner and celebrated author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees, this masterful book captivates, compel, and captivates the reader as it depicts a young hero’s remarkable journey to adulthood.

Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide caravan in the southern Appalachian woods. He has no possessions other than his deceased father’s attractive appearance, copper-colored hair, a sharp sense of humour, and a strong survival instinct. Demon braves the contemporary dangers of foster care, child labour, abandoned schools, athletic achievement, and addiction, as told in his own uncompromising voice.

As a survivor of institutional poverty and the harm it caused to children in his society, Charles Dickens drew inspiration for David Copperfield several generations ago. In ours, those issues remain unresolved. Although he served as its inspiration, Dickens is not required reading for this book. Barbara Kingsolver uses Dickens’ rage, compassion, and most importantly, his belief in the transformational power of a good tale, to adapt a Victorian epic novel to the modern American South. Demon Copperhead speaks for all those born into beautiful, cursed locations they can’t conceive leaving behind, as well as for a new generation of lost lads.