The HP Book Club will meet on Friday, January 17, at 2:30 p.m. in the Activity Center to discuss Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, the novel reimagines Dickens’s story in modern-day rural America contending with poverty and opioid addiction. Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, young love and crushing losses. His resilience, in the face of so many personal tragedies and governmental failures, makes him a name to remember. One reviewer wrote that the book provides Kingsolver’s “best demonstration yet of a novel’s ability to simultaneously entertain and plead for reform.” Karen Harris will lead the discussion.
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