Our Book of the Week is Barbara Kingsolver's wonderful new novel Demon Copperhead. Told by its eponymous protagonist, a red-headed child born to a teenage mother in an opiate-infused Appalachia, Kingsolver's novel, like a modern-day parallel to Charles Dickens's David Copperfield, is full of sharp observation of social ills underlaid with deep compassion and expressed with a great joy for language, character and story. 
>>The book she was born to write. 
>>In conversation with Ann Patchett. 
>>A literary ancestor. 
>>Seething with love and outrage. 
>>The voice of Demon Copperhead. 
>>Hillbillies not included. 
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