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“Demon Copperhead ” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read. Demon Copperhead is set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. It’s 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. 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 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.

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it’s the story of Damon Fields, aka Demon Copperhead, who is orphaned at the age of 10 after being born on the floor of a trailer to an addict mother who loved him but couldn’t help herself. Yes, it’s a contemporary version of David Copperfield and fans of that novel will see small echoes here not only in the nightmare of Demon’s life but also in small things like the names of some of the characters. And most of all, in his distinctive and amazing voice. While his neighbors, the Peggots include him in their rangy family as much as they can, they don’t take him in when his mother dies, leaving him to the foster care system that sees him placed first on a tobacco farm and then with a family that leaves him to sleep in a dog’s room. The Peggots loom large- his best friend Maggot, who is different, and Jane, the daughter who got away and became a nurse- but so do the boys he met on the farm, especially Fast Forward, the star quarterback. If there’s a bright spot in Demon’s life, it’s Annie, who teaches art, and, later Angus, the daughter of the high school football coach who takes him in. This large and sprawling, est intimate tale, holds a lot of horrors, especially with regard to opioid addiction but no matter how awful things get (and they get very bad) Demon keeps going, even as he too becomes addicted. This is not a fast read because the language and the storytelling demand your respect and attention. But most of all, it’s Demon that will make you turn the pages.