"My favorite novel of 2022 is Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead. Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, this is the story of an irrepressible boy nobody wants, but readers will love ... Kingsolver has reconceived the story in the fabric of contemporary life. Demon Copperhead is entirely her own thrilling story, a fierce examination of contemporary poverty and drug addiction tucked away in the richest country on Earth ... There's the saving grace. This would be a grim melodrama if it weren't for Demon's endearing humor, an alloy formed by his unaffected innocence and weary cynicism ... With Demon Copperhead, she's raised the bar even higher."
"[An] enthralling tour de force ... Each story talks to the others, and the conversation is both combative and revelatory ... Wordplay is Trust's currency ... Trust is a glorious novel about empires and erasures, husbands and wives, staggering fortunes and unspeakable misery ... He spins a larger parable, then, plumbing sex and power, causation and complicity."
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