Demon Copperhead: A Pulitzer Prize Winner

From the bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behavior, a brilliant novel that enthrals, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity.  Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can't imagine leaving behind.

"Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead is chock-full of cinematic twists and turns that might not be for the faint of heart but are also not that surprising given the book’s subject matter."  -  Alexis Burling, San Francisco Chronicle

Demon Copperhead is set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. It's the story of a boy born to a teenage single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-coloured 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 labour, 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 favour of cities. 

"In a feat of literary alchemy, Kingsolver uses the fire of that boy’s spirit to illuminate - and singe - the darkest recesses of our country... Demon Copperhead is entirely her own thrilling story, a fierce examination of contemporary poverty and drug addiction tucked away in the richest country on Earth..."  -  Ron Charles, The Washington Post

In transposing a Victorian epic novel -  Charles Dickens' David Copperfield - 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.