Appalachia: America’s Internal Colony and the Opioid Epidemic
Demon Copperhead is the title of Barbara Kingsolver’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The interview addresses profound questions about the region it depicts: How did Appalachia become an internal colony of the United States? Why was it Ground Zero for the opioid addiction epidemic? Who are the people of this region, often mocked by the rest of America? And what does Charles Dickens have to do with all of this?
In today’s „Book Report” the author of Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver, answers these questions.