Demon Copperhead

Key Takeaways

Kyle, in 2024 in Books: My wife has been recommending Barbara Kingsolver to me for a long time and last year even got to go see her in person. After the number of times she talked about this book, I decided I had to read it. And it was a thoroughly powerful book. Speaking of trauma, this was certainly a massive undertaking to capture the frustrations of an upbringing that, unfortunately, many people have experienced.

Connections

• Hillbilly Elegy — the paired Appalachian read in Embrace The Nuance; both cover poverty, foster care, and the opioid epidemic, and the essay’s “messy middle” is that you can hold both.
• Braving The Wilderness — grouped with this novel among the 2024 books about trauma and its impact on individuals.
• Lonesome Dove / Streets of Laredo — read alongside Demon Copperhead as the shared nightly audiobook with Kyle’s wife.