Barbara Kingsolver & Ruth Ozeki | Demon Copperhead (FULL EVENT)

💙 'I was starting to get known as Demon Copperhead. You can't deny, it's got a power to it.' Winner of both the Women's Prize for Fiction & the Pulitzer Prize for 2023, it's turning into quite the year for Barbara Kingsolver! Join the bestselling author in conversation with novelist, filmmaker and fellow Women’s Prize winner Ruth Ozeki as Barbara celebrates the release of her latest novel, Demon Copperhead.

Demon’s story begins with his traumatic birth to a single mother in a single-wide trailer, looking ‘like a little blue prize-fighter’. For the life ahead of him he would need all of that fighting spirit, along with buckets of charm, a quick wit, and some unexpected talents, legal and otherwise.

We befriend Demon on his journey through the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, the dizzying highs of true love, and the crushing losses that can accompany it. Demon is the voice of a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can't imagine leaving behind.

In conversation with Ruth for this Fane Online event, Barbara explores the inspiration behind her new book, a vivid reimagination of David Copperfield for the modern age. She considers the importance of telling the story of the American opioid crisis and why she turned to Dickens for inspiration, a man who spent his career protesting the ravages of poverty on children, in rollicking tales that made the whole world listen.

Suffused with truth, anger and compassion, watch a conversation with one of the greatest writers of our time as she shares an epic tale of love, loss and everything in between.

Barbara Kingsolver in conversation with Ruth Ozeki was originally broadcast on Tue 18 October 2022.

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