![]() ![]() His 2016 best seller, “Hillbilly Elegy,” was a bootstrapping memoir wrapped in a polemic Kingsolver found especially condescending. She is fiercely protective of its communities and irritated by the prejudice heaped on it. Kingsolver is a child of the region, and a biologist with an intimate knowledge of and love for its unique ecosystem - its flora and its fauna, including the human kind. ![]() ![]() 18, which reimagines the hero of “David Copperfield” as a young man in contemporary Southern Appalachia. “I don’t usually talk to dead people,” she said.) The result of the conversation, her 17th book in nearly three decades as a best-selling author, is “Demon Copperhead,” out on Oct. The answer came, she said, from a visitation by Charles Dickens. Her latest book began with the question of how to tell a story about the opioid epidemic that is ravaging Appalachia. ![]() Most of Barbara Kingsolver’s novels begin with a question, usually involving an injustice: how to tell a story about America’s exploitation of developing countries, for example, or the effects of climate change on rural communities. ![]()
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