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Demon Copperhead is a 2022 novel by Barbara Kingsolver. It was a co-recipient of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction , and won the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction . Kingsolver was inspired by the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield .
An iconic first line “First, I got myself born,” begins the tale of Damon Fields, aka Demon Copperhead, born in a trailer to a single mother in the mountains of Appalachia.
Barbara Ellen Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, essayist, and poet. Her widely known works include The Poisonwood Bible, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a nonfiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally.
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[8] [9] [10] The novel won the 2022 Kirkus Prize for Fiction. [11] The novel was longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. [12] Trust was named one of the "10 Best Books of 2022" by The Washington Post [13] and The New York Times. [14] The New Yorker and Esquire included the novel on their lists of the best books of 2022.
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John Mullan, reviewing the book in British newspaper The Guardian, said the book was "remarkable not just for its story, but also for its narrative form". [4] The Poisonwood Bible was selected for Oprah's Book Club in 1999. Additionally that year, the book was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. [5] It won the 2000 Boeke Prize.