There’s also a Uriah Heap type character who makes things more complicated. But Demon can’t help that he is drawn to people who sap his forward progress. One family, the Peggots, stand out as they try to help him but are unable to take him in.ĭemon’s fortunes seem to take a positive turn when the high school football coach lets him move in. Demon has been shifted to a number of foster homes that resulted in more abandonment and abuse. His father is deceased and his mother is an alcoholic who has been in rehab multiple times. The poverty, the abandonment, the abuse of drugs, the intolerance of those who are different, are all showcased in this story which centers on Damon (nickname Demon) Copperhead. She has taken the story of Dickens’ David Copperfield and set it in America’s Appalachia. Kingsolver’s latest is powerful and profound.
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