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SUMMARY:Director's Book Club: "Demon Copperhead" 
LOCATION:Davie/Cooper City Branch\nDavie/Cooper City Branch
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DESCRIPTION:Join Broward County Library Director Allison Grubbs in discuss
 ing thought-provoking books. Read the book or listen to the audiobook\, th
 en get together with Allison and others to talk about it.​​ 
 .\nhttps://broward.libnet.info/event/10296255
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><a href="https://broward.ent.sirsi.net/cli
 ent/en_US/default/search/results?qu=Demon+Copperhead%2c+kingsolver&amp\;te
 ="><em>Demon Copperhead</em> </a>by Barbara Kingsolver</p>\n<p>WINNER OF T
 HE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE * WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION</p>\n<p>A
  New York Times "Ten Best Books of 2022" * An Oprah's Book Club Selection 
 * An Instant New York Times Bestseller * An Instant Wall Street Journal Be
 stseller * A #1 Washington Post Bestseller</p>\n<p>"Demon is a voice for t
 he ages--akin to Huck Finn or Holden Caulfield--only even more resilient."
  --Beth Macy\, author of Dopesick</p>\n<p>"May be the best novel of 2022. 
 . . . Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking\, this is the story of an ir
 repressible boy nobody wants\, but readers will love." (Ron Charles\, Wash
 ington Post)</p>\n<p>From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and
  The Bean Trees\, a brilliant novel that enthralls\, compels\, and capture
 s the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity<
 /p>\n<p>Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia\, Demon Copperhead is 
 the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trail
 er\, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored
  hair\, a caustic wit\, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his o
 wn unsparing voice\, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care\, child
  labor\, derelict schools\, athletic success\, addiction\, disastrous love
 s\, and crushing losses. Through all of it\, he reckons with his own invis
 ibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rur
 al people in favor of cities.</p>\n<p>Many generations ago\, Charles Dicke
 ns wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutio
 nal poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems hav
 e yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of t
 his novel\, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian ep
 ic novel to the contemporary American South\, Barbara Kingsolver enlists D
 ickens' anger and compassion\, and above all\, his faith in the transforma
 tive 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.</p>\nhttps://broward.libnet.info/event/10296255
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