Knit & Lit Book Club

Demon Copperhead is a Pulitzer Prize-winning modern retelling of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield. Set in rural Appalachian Virginia, the novel follows Damon "Demon" Fields as he navigates systemic poverty, the brutal foster care system and the devastating opioid crisis that ravages his community.

Bleak House follows the intertwining lives of orphans Esther Summerson, Richard Carstone, and Ada Clare, who are trapped in the endless Jarndyce and Jarndyce lawsuit. While the case drags on, Esther uncovers her identity as Lady Dedlock's illegitimate daughter, unraveling a dark web of secrets, blackmail, and tragedy. 

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is an eco-thriller set in a remote Polish village. The elderly, eccentric protagonist, Janina, believes that persecuted local animals are enacting supernatural, murderous revenge on the town’s corrupt, hunting-obsessed men, before it is revealed that she herself committed the crimes.  

Yellowface is a biting satirical thriller about June Hayward, a struggling white author who steals a deceased literary prodigy's unfinished manuscript about Chinese laborers in WWI. After passing the book off as her own and adopting a racially ambiguous pseudonym, June faces intense paranoia, cyberbullying and escalating consequences.