![]() ![]() ![]() His life, it seemed, was destined for a singular, tragic course. ![]() From birth he was ingrained with the mentality of having zero worth, and no prospects. He became Demon, and nicknamed Copperfield for his red hair. The eponymous narrator of Kingsolver’s novel was born Damon Fields, in a dilapidated trailer, to a drug-addicted single mum. It’s not as brutal as Tiffany McDaniel’s “Betty” and Sofie Laguna’s “The Choke,” and maybe not as lyrically beautiful as either but it’s just as affecting equally powerful. ![]() This is a heart-wrenching contemporary coming-of-age story set in Lee County, Virginia exactly the kind of novel I’m drawn to, honestly. And now, here I am, having just finished my favourite book of the year, and one of my favourite books in years.ĭon’t be put off by the “David Copperfield” connection your reading experience won’t be diminished if you’re unfamiliar with it, and I think only marginally enhanced if you recognise the allusions dotted throughout. Then some bookseller pals started raving about it. I struggled through that particular Dickens novel in my late teens - probably more me than it, to be fair this was a time when Patterson and Clancy were my bread and butter - and the prospect of it being the basis for Kingsolver’s latest roused only a mild feeling of disinclination. When I heard “Demon Copperhead” was inspired by “David Copperfield,” I thought - no thanks, not for me until we meet again, Barbara Kingsolver. ![]()
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