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Harper Read Kindle PreviewFrom theΒ New York TimesΒ bestselling author ofΒ UnshelteredΒ andΒ Flight Behavior,Β a brilliant novel which enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young heroβs unforgettable journey to maturity. βAnyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose.β Demon CopperheadΒ is set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. Itβs the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead fatherβs 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 wroteΒ David CopperfieldΒ 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 Dickensβ anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story.Β Demon CopperheadΒ speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they canβt imagine leaving behind. Start Reading DEMON COPPERHEAD Now
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