Barbara Kingsolver Interview Part I for the Talking Appalachian Podcast

my David Copperfield and so it just seemed like he's going to be a boy it's just how it occurred to me and I knew right from the beginning several things the night that he first appeared in my mind my David Copperfield he had red hair he would be called Copperhead that would be his nickname I like the double meaning there you know I love words with several meanings talking about something dangerous but we're also talking about his Penny colored hair and I knew from the beginning he would be mungan because that that's so interesting mongans are very because we're here this is where this is like the the birthplace of mungin um Scott and Lee and wise counties so I thought that's interesting because it's very Appalachian and it's another it's a subtle way of of telling people we are not a monoculture here we are many kinds of people we are ethnically very interesting one of the things I really love about casting him as a mungon is