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Southern Appalachia. He was born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Damon braves the perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes...
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DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT THE OFFICIAL BOOK.
THIS IS A SUMMARY & IT DOES NOT ACCOMPANY THE OFFICIAL.
In this summary book, readers are taken to the southern Appalachian mountains, the setting of Barbara Kingsolver's "Demon Copperhead." This narrative brings to life the turbulent journey of Demon, a young boy born to a teenage single mother in a single-wide trailer. Despite having limited assets - merely his dead father's handsome features and copper-colored...
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"It's 1957, and after leaving the only home she has ever known, Alice Young steps off the bus into the all-Black town of New Jessup, Alabama, where residents have largely rejected integration as the means for Black social advancement. She falls in love with Raymond Campbell, whose clandestine organizing activities challenge New Jessup's status quo and could lead to the young couple's expulsion-or worse-from the home they hold dear. But as Raymond...
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