Brent, the book is loosely based on Dickens' David Copperfield. It's called Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver and the main character starts out at age 10 and is living an OK life until everything goes from bad to worse. Terrible step father, foster homes, child labor, until he goes looking for his grandmother who he has never met. I'm a little over half-way through the book. It's made me recall all these songs about poverty. Here's one more, thought his song takes place in Louisianna and the book is based mostly in Virginia.
