Kingsolver’s work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has earned literary awards and a devoted readership at home and abroad. Her work of narrative nonfiction is the influential bestseller Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can’t imagine leaving behind.īarbara Kingsolver is the author of ten bestselling works of fiction, including the novels Unsheltered, Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, The Poisonwood Bible, Animal Dreams, and The Bean Trees, as well as books of poetry, essays, and creative nonfiction. 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. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. 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. 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. 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. 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. If you are on the waitlist you will be notified IF a seat becomes available for you.ĭemon Copperhead is set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. Attendance is free, but REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. The event will be held in the Blue Ridge Room in Highsmith Student Union on Wednesday, Oct. UNC Asheville’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) in partnership with Malaprop’s is pleased to present an event with New York Times bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver in celebration of her latest book, Demon Copperhead.

Kingsolver's new book