Demon Copperhead

by Barbara Kingsolver

But the wicked have a different head for numbers than most. Any bad they do will end up on the side of never-mind. What’s done to them weighs double.

“Certain pitiful souls around here see whiteness as their last asset that hasn’t been totaled or repossessed.”

The wonder is that you could start life with nothing, end with nothing, and lose so much in between.

She said no. She was not in the business of throwing her life away so other people can stay shitfaced.