Sheldon Farrington’s Reviews > Demon Copperhead > Status Update

“I told him if there was ever a sale on skeletons, he’d have to take the wheel,” brought a tear to my eye along with the wistful reckoning with the tragic beauty of a moment of relief amidst a mounting narrative of deterioration and hopelessness.

The last few chapters have painted an unfortunately realistic portrait of its real-life counterpart.

And the book still has me in its throes.

How can one capture the cruelty of the world in such vivid, matter-of-fact, poignant turn of phrase.

At the close of chapter 24, if Damon must keep moving undeterred by all the rage and reckoning of a hard life in Appalachia, so too must I as I both eagerly and wincingly turn the page fighting back tears and the sort of empathy reserved for real life tragedies.