![]() ![]() This is an eighteen-year-old girl we’re discussing, all on her own and as pregnant as it gets. All through the dog-breath air of late summer and fall, cast an eye up the mountain and there she’d be, little bleach-blonde smoking her Pall Malls, hanging on that railing like she’s captain of her ship up there and now might be the hour it’s going down. On any other day they’d have seen her outside on the deck of her trailer home, good neighbors taking notice, pestering the tit of trou- ble as they will. The cover of "Demon Copperhead." (Courtesy) A decent crowd was on hand to watch, and they’ve always given me that much: the worst of the job was up to me, my mother being let’s just say out of it. ![]() Book excerpt: 'Demon Copperhead'įirst, I got myself born. ![]() The book was announced as a co-winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction earlier this month. Here & Now's Scott Tong speaks with author Barbara Kingsolver about her new book " Demon Copperhead," which takes Charles Dickens's "David Copperfield" and sets it in modern-day southern Appalachia. Editor's note: This story was rebroadcasted on May 18, 2023. ![]()
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