This is a long, epic book that has received a huge amount of renown, including winning the Pulitzer Prize. Kingsolver modeled the story after Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, but follows the character Demon throughout his childhood in the southern Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. The depiction of the opioid crisis in America is horrific. I appreciated the mastery of the storytelling, but it felt very long, and I found myself coming back to it in between other books. It’s quite like A Little Life in that sense, powerfully written, but a tough read due to the subject matter.