Southern Copperhead Snake! | Wild Charles

In Case You Missed It: Author Barbara Kingsolver joined #Oprah for a sit down conversation about "Demon Copperhead," the latest #OprahsBookClub pick 📚 It turns out that Kingsolver made her way into the writing of Demon Copperhead while seated at the desk of Charles Dickens, who wrote David Copperfield, on which her book was modeled. Watch their full conversation here 👉🏾 https://trib.al/R5fExT4 | Oprah Daily

We’re now more than halfway through Barbara Kingsolver’s “Demon Copperhead,” and we’ve watched our narrator Demon go from a childhood of abuse and neglect to high school football stardom. He is worshipped by all of Lee County, Virginia — and even falls in love for the first time — and then a serious knee injury during a game alters the course of his life. He’s given prescription painkillers by his team doctor, becomes addicted, drops out of school, and begins selling drugs to survive. Demon’s fa