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Our Thursday Night Book Club meets every fourth Thursday of the month and is open to any and all readers. Our discussions are good, varied and – for the most part – stay on point. But we have a lot of fun, too. Stop in, try us out, meet some new friends and read some great books.After our long holiday nap, we're starting off with our traditional big book of January! It will be good to get together again after such a long hiatus and Demon Copperhead will give us much to discuss. I will be curious to see how many will read David Copperfield for comparison purposes. : )
About the Book: Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead 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. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon 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.
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White Birch Books, 2594 White Mountain Hwy, North Conway, NH 03860-5221, United States,North Conway, New Hampshire
