Demon Copperhead

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Read the first chapter of this book in a used bookstore as my partner and I waited for a brunch seat next door and was hooked.

(6) This book is really interesting to me. I am lucky to have grown up in a middle-class family, so this is a completely different type of life that I'd like to live through this novel. I've definitely crossed paths with people who've lived these lives before — truly parallel lives, with no point of intersection but a glance across the train tracks.
(5) Very interesting contrast between rural and urban life from the perspective of a kid who's never seen it before (52)
(4) Stream of consciousness, first-person POV
(2) Retelling of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens; bildungsroman
(6) I've always lived in a city, so I've never considered how isolating one can be