Barbara Kingsolver, author of The Poisonwood Bible, returned to her home turf of Appalachia to tackle one of its most urgent issues — with a little help from David Copperfield.
Kingsolver's novel faithfully replicates the plot and characters of the original. David Copperfield becomes Damon Fields, known as Demon Copperhead, a boy born in a trailer to an 18-year-old single mother with a substance abuse problem.
The mountainous Appalachia region in West Virgina is a symbol of the once booming American coal industry, now in decline. "Appalachia is the poorest part of this country. For 200 years, it's been treated as a colony of the United States. It has been exploited economically, its schools have been kept deliberately substandard, and its people have been kept deliberately poor by the series of outside agencies that came in to pull out the coal, the timber, the tobacco — all the resources."Kingsolver returned to Appalachia in 2004, moving to a farm in West Virginia with her family.
"We are really tired of the arrogance of urban progressives who see the world entirely through a progressive lens and don't see rural people at all. We never show up in the movies or on television or in the news unless it's as an object of pity or a joke," she says.
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