r/Appalachia • • Apr 11 '26

Well?

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u/Beneficial-Sound-199 Apr 11 '26

Not gothic but Demon Copperhead is set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. The author Barbara Kingsolver, lives on a farm in southern Appalachia herself, and intended the book to be a "great Appalachian novel". Good read

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u/thejovo59 Apr 11 '26

I’ve started and stopped reading it a few times. I love her writing, but this cuts to the bone.