Barbara Kingsolver · 2022 · coming-of-age

Kingsolver's Pulitzer-winning retelling of David Copperfield follows Demon, a red-headed boy born to a teenaged mother in the mountains of southwest Virginia, through foster care, football, and the opioid epidemic ravaging his Appalachian home, toward a first glimpse of the sea and a fragile hope.

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   Lee County

   Born in a single-wide to a struggling mother in the Appalachian coalfields, Demon is passed through foster homes and swept up in the opioid crisis engulfing his community.

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   Atlantic Coast

   Having survived what destroyed so many around him, Demon drives east and stands for the first time before the ocean, a horizon wide enough to hold a future.