Damon has faced things in his short life most of us will never deal with addiction, starvation, neglect, abuse and violence. Meet Damonĭamon is our narrator, only eleven when we meet him, dealing with a single mother who is addicted. There was one passage in this book that I had to set the book down and take a minute it was so real and alarming to read.īut don’t let me scare you away…because this is a must read. What did come through though is Kingsolver’s incredible talent for descriptive narrative, palpable and often painful. KingsolverĪpparently Kingsolver used David Copperfield as inspiration of this novel…but it wasn’t something that came through strongly for me as a reader. This book was disturbing in many ways…for it’s gritty and real portrayal of drug addiction in the United States…specifically in the mountains of southern Appalachia. I’m actually struggling a bit to write this review. But her latest work is really remarkable…here is my book review Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. Even at 20 years old it’s still very readable and if you haven’t read it you should. I loved her work in Unsheltered and in Flight Behavior, but my all-time favorite is The Poisonwood Bible. One of America’s greatest and most prolific modern day authors, Kingsolver brings to us another masterpiece.
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