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SUMMARY:Wednesday Night Readers
UID:9695
DTSTAMP:20260423T033600Z
DTSTART:20250521T233000Z
DTEND:20250522T003000Z
LOCATION:Byron Public Library District, 100 S Washington St., Byron, IL 61
 010, United States
ROOM: Classroom 1
DESCRIPTION:Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this 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. In a plot that never pa
 uses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern 
 perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, ad
 diction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reck
 ons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superher
 oes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.Many generations ago, C
 harles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor o
 f institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those 
 problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for 
 readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a V
 ictorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingslover
  enlists Dickens' anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in t
 he transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a ne
 w generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed place
 s they can't imagine leaving behind.Copies of the book are available 
 for check-out at the library. 
URL:https://www.byronlibrary.org/event/wednesday-night-readers-9695
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