Due to this book’s length we will be splitting it January and February. For February read chapters 35 through 64.

Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, is the story of a boy born to a teenage 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. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckon  with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in
favor of cities.

Please register for the event here and send any questions to Dave Beaver at d4veb3aver@gmail.com