Book Club - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

800 North Kansas Avenue,Topeka KS 66608

10 January, 2023

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Join us at Compass Point home of Dirty Girl Adventures for a book club discussion of our January book selection. We will meet Tuesday January 10th from 5:45-7:30pm to discuss our thoughts about Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. Attendance is FREE so RSVP. Dinner is $10 and provided by Denise - dinner will be Vegetable Soup made with Greg Fox's recipe, crusty bread and something sweet. Please RSVP for dinner so that we have enough food. This book is available at your local library, multiple reading platforms and at your locally owned bookstore. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver "Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose." Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good 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 unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities. Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional 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 of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens' anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can't imagine leaving behind.