“Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver is the Social Awareness Book Club pick for October, with discussion at the Ludington Library on Wednesday, October 9th at 10:30 a.m. Copies are available to check out at the Ludington Library’s main circulation desk.
I couldn’t put this book down, it was enticing and had me on the edge of my seat. At times I cried and worried for the outcomes/decisions that Demon had to face. There was no sugar coating the foster care system, drug use, cycles of poverty and being a young person growing up.
– Jody Harper
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver is the 2023 Pulitzer prize winning story about a boy born to a single mother (an ‘expert at rehab’) in a single wide trailer in the mountains of Southern Appalachia. His father died before he was born, but he has inherited his Melungeon looks and copperhead hair. It’s fair to say he’s up against it from the start, in this epic tale of survival about the boy that nobody wants.
– bookshelfdiscovery
Email Thomas Trahey at ttrahey@mcdlibrary.org for more information about the book club.
The Social Awareness Book Club of the Mason County District Library is open to everyone!