Barbara Kingsolver shortlisted for Women’s Prize for Fiction
The shortlist for this year's Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced and we're happy to see Barbara Kingsolver among the six finalists with her latest novel Demon Copperhead, published last October by HarperCollins. Italian rights are sold to Neri Pozza.
Demon’s story begins with his traumatic birth to a single mother in a single-wide trailer, looking ‘like a little blue prizefighter’. 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.
In the southern Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, poverty isn’t an idea, it’s as natural as the grass grows. For a generation growing up in this world, at the heart of the modern opioid crisis, addiction isn’t an abstraction, it’s neighbours, parents, and friends. ‘Family’ could mean love, or reluctant foster care. For Demon, born on the wrong side of luck, the affection and safety he craves is as remote as the ocean he dreams of seeing one day. The wonder is in how far he’s willing to travel to try and get there.
Suffused with truth, anger and compassion, Demon Copperhead is an epic tale of love, loss and everything in between.
The Women’s Prize for Fiction is the UK’s most prestigious annual book award celebrating and honouring fiction written by women. The winner will be announced in London on June 14.
