DEMON COPPERHEAD is traveling the world, to my wonder and amazement. And he's taken me with him! This video was recorded in the London office of my UK publisher, Faber Books. | Barbara Kingsolver

Welcome to our first week of discussion around Oprah’s latest Book Club Pick, “Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver. Born to a single teenage mother scraping by in a single-wide trailer, our narrator, nicknamed “Demon,” is wise beyond his years, with a fierce will to survive and a unique voice. (As he notes in the beginning of Chapter Two: “A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing.”) Early on, we see Demon roam the Appalachian woods with his best friend, the grandson of the Peggo