I missed (having never read it) the allusions to David Cooperfield in Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead (2022), but it still a very well written if (apart from the more upbeat ending) profoundly depressing tale of #opioids addiction, its supply & the social destruction it has wrought in Virginia (& elsewhere). In the end while appreciating the writing I found the relentlessness hard to take (but perhaps that was the point?).
yes, i think so... there are times & places when somebody has to say, enough with the hero's journey nonsense, some things aren't overcome just by sheer grit & determination or we'd all overcome everything if all we had to do was keep going
the destruction of his knee really hammered that home for me
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