DemonCopperhead

Mina’s

April 11, 2023

March 6, 2023, 6:30pm

“The surprise of seeing her body all at once, the pale bikini of untanned skin like invisible clothes over the 🍑es
of breasts and her cooch.”

🍑 cobbler cut in a little square. Right now,
I could draw that cobbler.”

“Mom is gorgeous, she’s killing him with it, prettier than two 🍑es”

Rating: 🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑

“Demon Copperhead,” by Barbara Kingsolver and “Trust,” by Hernan Diaz

Barbara Kingsolver Mike Belleme for The New York Times

Two awards were given in this category: to Barbara Kingsolver, for a recasting of the Charles Dickens novel “David Copperfield” set in Appalachia. The narrator’s “wise, unwavering voice relates his encounters with poverty, addiction, institutional failures and moral collapse – and his efforts to conquer them, the committee said. Hernan Diaz was honored for “Trust” which explores family, ambition and wealth through linked narratives in different literary styles.