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Demon Copperhead

"So rather than give a lecture, Kingsolver delivers a deep dive into a messy world in which young people play the hand they’re dealt, moving from bad choice to poor decision to lesser of two evils. What does hope look like for kids like Demon?"

Barbara Kingsolver
Harper Collins, 560 pages | Published October 18, 2022

Had Charles Dickens published his epic novels in a modern-day blog, rather than a periodical, comments would have likely ranged from, “so tragic — why is the government neglecting these children?” to “Humbug! They had better die and decrease the surplus population.” With nearly 175 years and an ocean to separate us from Victorian England, most of us find...

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