The Bookies will meet at 10:00 a.m. on Tue sday\, October 10 to discuss Barbara Kingsolver's novel Demon Copperhead. If you need a copy of the book or would like more information\, please con tact Katie: kmoellering@onea llibrary.org or 205-445-1118.
\nfrom Barbara Kingsolver's websit e:
\nDemon Copperhead \;is set in the mountains of southern Appa lachia. It&rsquo\;s the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer\, with no assets beyond his dead father&rsquo\;s go od 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 uns paring voice\, he braves the modern perils of foster care\, child labor\, derelict schools\, athletic success\, addiction\, disastrous loves\, and c rushing losses. Through all of it\, he reckons with his own invisibility i n a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.
\nMany generations ago\, Charles Dickens wrote& nbsp\;David Copperfield \;from his experience as a survivor of institu tional 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 o f this novel\, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to her own place and time\, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens &rsquo\; anger and compassion\, and above all\, his faith in the transform ative powers of a good story. \;Demon Copperhead \;speaks for a ne w generation of lost boys\, and all those born into beautiful\, cursed pla ces they can&rsquo\;t imagine leaving behind.
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