American writer Barbara Kingsolver won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her novel Demon Copperhead (2022), a modern retelling of Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield set in Appalachia. It centers on a boy who endures a difficult childhood that includes foster homes and opioid addiction. The book also won the 2023 Women’s Prize for Fiction.
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