![]() ![]() Then, as mechanisation replaced the workforce, Big Pharma companies exploited the fallout of mass unemployment by pushing the prescription drug Oxycontin. We get the background to social issues in the Appalachian region, the coal companies who failed to invest in higher education leaving local men no alternative but to go down the mines. Kingsolver is informative without preachiness. ![]() As with Dickens, the aim is to exact justice, ‘a good story doesn’t just copy life, it pushes back on it’. The novel’s Bildungsroman genre lends itself to heightening awareness of social issues. We can actually hear you.’ He adds that terms intended to wound can be reclaimed and used to empower those at the receiving end of bigotry. ![]() Of Appalachian people Demon reflects, ‘God made us the butt of the joke universe…This is what I would say if I could, to all smart people of the world with their dumb hillbilly jokes: We are right here in the stall. His wit and intelligence compel the reader to sit up and pay attention. When his mother dies from an overdose, he is shunted from one foster home to another, neglected by an underfunded social care system, and in no time at all he falls prey to exploitation and mistreatment.įrom the opening line, ‘First I got myself born,’ Demon’s voice captivates. Mixed-race Demon (birth name Damon Fields) is born in a trailer to a teenage addict, inheriting nothing but his dead father’s good looks and copper-coloured hair. ![]()
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