I love Kingsolver. Her books tackle contemporary hypocrisies plus issues our world is grappling with. I read The Poisonwood Bible shortly after I quit a super religious group, so it resonated for me.

I want to read it! Charles Dickens’s ghost visited her and told her to write a story from a child’s point of view.

Loved The Poisonwood Bible

A writer friend of mine recommended her to me about 2 decades ago and I was never able to wade through the enormous volumes she wrote, it seemed emotionally detached and laboriously descriptive. Totally off putting.

Her books are so miserable. That one about the butterflies; it's as if she is longing for her fears to come true so she can dunk on the mysterious all-powerful deniers, or maybe she longs to actually see the world burn? Definitely has some childhood issues to work through.

And then when she lived off the land for a year, she became so indignant when someone asked her to bring a green salad to a party in the winter. Who is inviting this gem to parties?

Thanks for the rec- i love her books!

I freaking hate depressing stories like this. One bad event after another. HARD PASS !!

Anyone reading this? I just started it and it's fantastic.

Here's the Amazon summary:
Demon Copperhead is set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. It’s 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.