Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, 2022
A foster kid in opioid-era Appalachia tells his own story with grit, humor, and a voice that refuses to be pitied.
Barbara Kingsolver
Feels like grief, tenderness and unease.
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Kingsolver trained as a biologist and grew up in rural Kentucky; Demon Copperhead won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and retells David Copperfield.
What comfort feels like when you've learned to live without it.
We both lay back down, and she looked at me in the eyes, and we were sad together for a while. I’ll never forget how that felt. Like not being hungry. Books by Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver, 1998
A Baptist family from Georgia arrives in the Congo in 1959, and each daughter tells what their father’s certainty costs them.
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