Demon Copperhead
A retelling of *David Copperfield* set in the Appalachian opioid crisis. Kingsolver takes Dickens's orphan-boy structure and uses it to indict the pharmaceutical industry, poverty, and the American abandonment of rural communities with enormous moral and narrative force. The novel Dickens would have written about America now.
Kingsolver's outrage occasionally grabs the wheel from her narrator; Demon, a teenage dropout, periodically explains pharmaceutical incentive structures like a policy brief. Mapping every beat onto Dickens also means inheriting his coincidences and his length. Five hundred fifty pages of escalating misery is a commitment, and the schema tells you most of what happens next.
The case for it and the rest of the canon open with Pro.
