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Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver reminds me why I fell in love with audiobooks

It’s a story written so perfectly, and performed so well by the reader, your suspension of disbelief hits you soon after you’ve started. It’s not the narrator of a book you bought reading an authors words. It’s a flesh and blood man telling you his life story in the dark of a recording booth.In my opinion at least, it helps that Kingsolver wrote it in the first person. It’s the story of rural poverty and how it traps people and whole families, how drug addiction devastates a community, how cruel men can prey upon and destroy the women trapped in that world.It’s all heavy stuff. Heavier then I usually like. But Kingsolver’s prose and her main characters sharp, poignant, and often hilarious observations balance out the misery.It’s set in West Virginia, in a small rural community once known for its principal business of mining. And though I’m a few states up I found myself nodding silently through a lot of it. I live in a city haunted by the ghost of its former industry. I’ve seen the absolutely incredible, overworked, exhausted women holding together their families as best they can. It felt like something you could see in New York or PA as well.TLDR: check this book out via /r/audiobooks https://ift.tt/jwBSIWq

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