Author: Eric Anderson

Eric Anderson Two American societies, thousands of miles apart, but close in many ways. Barbara Kingsolver’s “Demon Copperhead” is a retelling of Charles Dickens’s “David Copperfield” set in 1990s Appalachia. Ted Conover’s “Cheap Land Colorado” is a nonfiction portrait of off-gridders in the San Luis Valley. Both describe communities that feel disconnected from the rest…