![]() Kingsolver’s protagonist Damon Field is born, in the 1980s, to a trailer-dwelling, substance-abusing mother who’s high on gin, amphetamines and painkilling pills at the time of his birth. Kingsolver lives with her family on a farm in Southwestern Virginia, which is part of America’s Appalachia region (Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, North and South Carolina and so on).ĭemon Copperhead is set in the Appalachia region, and is a reworking of perhaps the most nakedly sentimental (and personal favourite of the author) of all Charles Dickens novels David Copperfield. The 68-year-old Kingsolver’s works (including and especially her bestselling novel The Poisonwood Bible, about a family of missionaries in Congo) have been praised by critics around the world for their emphasis on social justice, inequality and ecological issues. ![]() ![]() Earlier this week, Barbara Kingsolver’s novel Demon Copperhead was announced the joint winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, alongside Hernan Diaz’s novel Trust. ![]()
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