Finished Mo 12/4/23
This was a hardback that Janny loaned me. A terrific story and won a Pulitzer Prise and was an Oprah Winfrey Pick.
The book is a harrowing tale of a boy's negative experience with the South's 'foster care' system in Appalacia, but some of the novel is hilarious.
"Demon says that he had a teacher that looked like a shrunken head in a dress".
"Who in the world would name a boy child 'Woodie'? "Don't worry, he'll have a new nickname when he's five". They both say, "hard-on".
From the book's page at Wikipedia:
"The protagonist and narrator is born Damon Fields to a teenage mother in a trailer home. He is raised in Lee County, located in Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, and nicknamed "Demon Copperhead" for the color of his hair and his attitude. As Demon grows up, he must use his charms and wits to survive poverty in the contemporary American South."
The only compliant that I could have was that 'Demon' seems so self assured and intelligent, but I guess that's the point. Sometimes highly pressurized environments can produce diamonds.
I have a note to find more books by barbara Kingsolver.
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