Book of the Month: Demon Copperhead (2022) by Barbara Kingsolver Critical Evaluation "In 'Demon Copperhead,' Barbara Kingsolver offers a close retelling of Charles Dickens’s 'David Copperfield,' which is either a baffling choice or an ingenious maneuver from a novelist who has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and selected for Oprah’s Book Club and regularly — inevitably, even — appears on the best-seller list of this newspaper, all while reaping a surprising quantity of stinging pans from critics. "Kingsolver’s resurrection of Dickens’s most sentimental (though cherished by many, including me) novel might seem a bit strange — as if Harry Styles [...]