About Our New Book Club

The rules for membership are simple—if you love Southern literature, you’re in. G&G Reads expands on the book coverage you already know and love in the pages of the magazine, highlighting the best of the South’s new books with exclusive author interviews, opportunities to ask your own questions, and insider conversations about the stories behind the stories. The first G&G Reads conversation will happen early next year.

The First Book

Painful but hard to put down, Barbara Kingsolver’s epic new novel, Demon Copperhead, compels with beautiful writing and a story that takes as inspiration Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield. The Virginia writer sets her own tale of an orphan in the 2000s in her state’s Lee County, home to bean-and-cornbread suppers, Friday night football, and an economy that lurches from farming and coal mining to prescription pill swapping. Kingsolver’s descriptions of nature gleam—moss in the deer-hunting woods, tobacco harvested by hand—as does her understanding of rural ways and overlooked histories. Hear more in the forthcoming conversation between Kingsolver and Garden & Gun books columnist and contributing editor Jonathan Miles.

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