Cedar Monroe
Broadleaf Books, 256 pages
Published March 5, 2024
In Barbara Kingsolver’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Demon Copperhead, her young protagonist notices that national newspapers cover only the poverty and addiction of his Appalachian home. Demon says, “(e)very make of person now has their proper nouns, except for some reason, us. Hicks, rednecks, not capitalized.” And he’s right. Respect for the most marginalized is...
