Demon Copperhead is a 2022 novel by Barbara Kingsolver. It was a co-recipient of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and won the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction. Kingsolver was inspired by the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield.[1][2] While Kingsolver's novel is similarly about a boy who experiences poverty, Demon Copperhead is set in Appalachia and explores contemporary issues.[3][4][5]
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The protagonist and narrator is born Damon Fields to a teenage mother in a trailer home. He is raised in Lee County, located in Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, and nicknamed "Demon Copperhead" for the color of his hair and his attitude. As Demon grows up, he must use his charms and wits to survive poverty in the contemporary American South.[6][7]
Names in parentheses are the analogous characters in Dickens's David Copperfield.
According to the review aggregator website Book Marks, Demon Copperhead received mostly positive reviews from critics.[8] Ron Charles of The Washington Post praises Demon Copperhead as his "favorite novel of 2022"[9] as it is "equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, this is the story of an irrepressible boy nobody wants, but readers will love."[9] Writing for The Guardian, Elizabeth Lowry contends that "while the task of modernising [Dickens's] novel is complicated by the fact that mores have shifted so radically since the mid-19th century … the ferocious critique of institutional poverty and its damaging effects on children is as pertinent as ever."[10] However, Lorraine Berry of The Boston Globe criticizes the novel as poverty porn, arguing that,
In seeking to raise awareness of child hunger and poverty in the United States, Kingsolver turns her characters’ lives into tales of misery and the inevitability of failure. Her characters wallow in dark hollows with little light, condemned to forever repeat the horrific mistakes of previous generations. She makes the people of Appalachia into objects of pity, but in doing so, also intimates that falling into drug abuse, rejecting education, and 'clinging' to their ways are moral choices.[11]
Demon Copperhead was named one of the "10 Best Books of 2022" by The Washington Post[12] and The New York Times.[13] The novel was named the recipient of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction alongside Hernan Diaz's Trust; this was the first time in its history that the award was shared.[14] It won the 2022 James Tait Black Prize for Fiction.[15] The novel was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.[16] In 2024, it was ranked #61 by the New York Times in its list of the best 100 books of the 21st century.[17]
Barbara Kingsolver won the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction for the novel,[18][19] making her the first author to win the prize twice; she had previously won in 2010 for The Lacuna.
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