Adult Book Club Discussion
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Please join us for one of our meetings of our Adult Book Club scheduled for Tuesday, March 11, at 1:00 pm and Friday, March 14, at 1:30 pm. We will be discussing the book "Demon Copperhead" by Barbara Kingsolver.
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.
Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens’ anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can’t imagine leaving behind.
Copies of the book are available for checkout at the library.
What: Adult Book Club
When/Where: Tuesday, March 11, at 1:00 p.m. - East Troy Lions Public Library
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When/Where: Friday, March 14, at 1:30 p.m. - East Troy Lions Public Library
East Troy Lions Public Library Adult Book Club Reading List 2025
January: The Boys by Katie Hafner
February: Breath by James Nestor
March: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
April: James by Percival Everett
May: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
June: Bookshop of the Broken Hearted by Robert Hillman
July: Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
August: Killing the Witches by Bill O'Reilly
September: The Women by Kristin Hannah
October: Being Henry by Henry Winkler
November: Title to be determined
December: Title to be determined
Series Sampler Book Club - Monday, March 17, at 3:15 pm
For 4th - 6th Graders
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