Opening this novel of more than 600 pages, being a little afraid to dive into it. And then find yourself unable to stop, cursing everything that could interrupt your reading. Finally realizing that you are holding a masterpiece in your hands, a huge, impactful, important book, and having a crazy desire to share it with everyone.
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My Calls Demon Copperhead
won the Pulitzer Prize last year, and this award should have surprised no one. He speaks of an America that we know little about, far from that of big cities, far from a country that we thought was civilized. Lee County, Virginia is where this story begins. There, in the 1990s, Damon, soon nicknamed Demon, comes into the world, one child among others, born in the wrong place, at the wrong time. It is he who recounts in his sometimes naive, sometimes far too lucid words, his addict mother, their mobile home for those left behind, the brutality of a stepfather.
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Demon is this incredible and bright little boy with…
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