100% agree on Demon Copperhead; the central protagonist is at once dysfunctional, resilient, and sympathetic, which is a difficult feat to pull off, but Kingsolver does it so well. It’s my favorite novel of all time. I haven’t read The Bee Sting but I’ll have to check it out. As for American Fiction, I similarly enjoyed the lampooning of shallow, performative wokeness and the protagonist’s struggle for acceptance on his own merits, separate from his racial identity. However, the ambiguous ending somewhat birthed me.
100% agree on Demon Copperhead; the central protagonist is at once dysfunctional, resilient, and sympathetic, which is a difficult feat to pull off, but Kingsolver does it so well. It’s my favorite novel of all time. I haven’t read The Bee Sting but I’ll have to check it out. As for American Fiction, I similarly enjoyed the lampooning of shallow, performative wokeness and the protagonist’s struggle for acceptance on his own merits, separate from his racial identity. However, the ambiguous ending somewhat birthed me.