Demon Copperhead A Novel

Barbara Kingsolver's book, Demon Copperhead... she writes this book that's, you know, really based in Appalachia and just really helps people to understand much more the nuance and complexity of what's going on in one place in rural America.

today I want to share one of my favorite conversations ... about her amazing book, Demon Copperhead, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

In 2023, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was won by ... Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver.

It's a beautiful book. It's a wrenching book. I routinely had to stop reading because I was so fused with the character and the story.

It was finally with Demon Copperhead that I could tell the most Appalachian story I've ever told.

Demon Copperhead is my attempt to speak to people. I wanted it to be a window and a mirror, as they say books can be.

My second recommendation would be Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, which came out a couple of years ago and I think won the Pulitzer. And it's a beautiful novel that's loosely based or sort of an update of David Copperfield that I think, besides being extraordinarily written, has some tremendous political insights in it as well.

Demon Copperhead was the only novel I read twice last year.

In 2023, the Pulitzer Prize for fiction was won by two novels, Trust by Hernn Daz and Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver.

It's a beautiful book. It's a wrenching book. It's a book that I routinely had to stop reading because I was so fused with the character and so fused with the story.

Demon Copperhead is my attempt to speak to people.

A fourth fiction book that I loved this summer is Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver.

Barbara KingSolveron who wrote Demon Copperhead... Outrageously beautiful. It's about a young boy growing up in Appalachia, his mom's addict, he's in foster care, he becomes an opiate addict.

I love Demon Copperhead, but it's not this.

Barbara Kingsolver, she of course wrote our favorite book of the year, Demon Copperhead, which ... And I encourage everyone to go get demon copperhead ... because it is phenomenal.

I typed in demon Copperhead. It came up. I began. I didn't even look who wrote it. Who cares? Doesn't matter.

Barbara Kingsolver. She, of course, wrote our favorite book of the year, Demon Copperhead, which I'm so prone to get wrong.

The Poisonwood Bible, Unsheltered, The Bean Trees, Flight Behavior. And I encourage everyone to go get Demon Copperhead.

I went on Audible. I typed in Demon Copperhead. It came up. I began. I didn't even look who wrote it.

She wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning book last year, Demon Copperhead. Oh yeah, the most beautiful book. I read it.

She said in that book, she was trying to explain how it feels to be in the South and especially in Appalachia.

She wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning book last year, Demon Copperhead. Oh yeah, okay, the most beautiful book. I read it. My whole family's from Kentucky.

I loved you know we just talked about in one of our recent episodes we talked about the case involving the Sackler and Purdue Pharma bankruptcy settlement Demon Copperhead is not only retelling of David Copperfield but very elementally about the opioid crisis and an incredible book and I feel like I'm a Barbara King-Solver completist I think I've read everything she's written and it was gratifying to see her get I thought the well-deserved Pulitzer for this book.

She wrote a book called Demon Copperhead, and she based it on the Charles Dickens book, David Copperfield.

When she did it, it was a fresh story, but it came from a classic Source.