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Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 19, 2023

Kingsolver’s ability to define tragedy and capture victory all at once is unparalleled. Demon Copperhead speaks global truths born in the heart of rural America.

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Karen Hickey

Unforgettable

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 18, 2022

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This is an outstanding book on so many levels. I was hooked as soon as I opened it. First, in the voice of a young man, Kingsolver shows us that life for the poor is more than depressing--it's a road to despair, bad choices, and hopelessness. It's hard for those of us who have what we need to understand the lives she outlines for us--living in the poverty associated with Appalachia. Her characters are 'alive' and show us just how tough it can be when you have nothing and no one who cares for you--not even those who are paid to make sure you have what you need. Demon's life shows us how large corporations exploit the poor and how capitalism penalizes those of us who have the least and need the most. I'm not a fan of all of her books but this one is outstanding.

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Read in one sitting

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 3, 2023

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I loved this book.

It made me rethink the disdain I had for Hillbllies, and understand addiction . I couldn't put it down.

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Karen A.

New condition, came quickly.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 2, 2023

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This was a gift. It is written by a favourite author so was received with anticipation.

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Thoroughly enjoyed it

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 30, 2022

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I like her writing a lot and this book didn't disappoint. I also liked reading about a different culture.

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Ginette

jaw dropping fantastic

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 17, 2022

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What a surprise. A few pages in and I was hooked. The best book I have read in 2022. To be so talented an author - to make this story come alive with humour, sadness and unfair life moments - I will never forget Demon or how Barbara Kingsolver can be so talented with writing meaning into every sentence. Amazing.

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Brutal but necessary.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 19, 2022

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As always, Barbara Kingsolver does not disappoint with her deeply understood characters with their difficulties and joy. So very, very important that addiction is addressed in a very human light. Impressive. Not an easy read emotionally but incredibly important as everyone has been touched by some type of addiction.

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WayneA

Excellent read

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 22, 2022

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I enjoyed the journey of Demon Copperhead, and could relate to many of his trials and tribulations.
I highly recommend this book.

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Susan Petahtegoose

for those of us who were blessed

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 3, 2022

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A brilliant read - these are the forgotten people the unseen left behind by society - those who have never experienced these hardships are blessed

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Carolyn

Stunning epic about children in foster care in modern times

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 27, 2022

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The excellent cover design first drew me to this book. I thought a modern adaptation of the classic David Copperfield would be a formidable task. When I saw it was written by Barbara Kingsolver, who wrote three of my favourite books, all wildly different in theme and location, The Poisonwood Bible, The Lacuna, and Flight Behaviour, I knew I wanted to purchase and read this. This is unlike her other books that enthralled me. It is an epic tale (over 600 pages) and a fabulous read. Its characters, the good, the wicked, the uncaring, and the disinterested, will stay in my memory for a long time. We learn something about the region's history, the coal mining, those impoverished, marginalized people scorned by others and designated hillbillies and rednecks. ( a word with an interesting origin),
and with social situations little improved since the time of Charles Dickens.
Demon comments on David Copperfield, one of the few books he managed to read in school, " The Charles Dickens one seriously old guy, dead and a foreigner, but Christ Jesus did he get the picture on kids and orphans getting screwed over, and nobody gives a rat's ass. You'd think he was from around here."

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