Between the Lines Reads Demon Copperhead (Depot)

If you like to read a variety of books, and if you like to discuss the books you read, you should join one of the Aurora Public Library District’s book groups. There will be afternoon groups that meet at the Aurora Public Library on January 25th @ 1:00 pm and the Dillsboro Public Library on January 26th @ 1:00 pm. There will also be an evening meeting at the Local History Library on January 30th @ 6:30 pm. We will be discussing 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.