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Demon Copperhead

by Barbara Kingsolver

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David Copperfield

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Barbara Kingsolver's novel retells David Copperfield in Appalachia during the opioid crisis, following Dickens's plot and recasting his characters for a boy born to a teenage mother in a trailer.

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Demon Copperhead

It was a co-recipient of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and won the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction. Kingsolver was inspired by the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield. While Kingsolver's novel is similarly about a boy who experiences poverty, Demon Copperhead is set in Appalachia and explores contemporary issues. The book touches on themes of the social and economic stratification in Appalachia, child poverty in rural America, and drug addiction with a focus on the opioid crisis.

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