Oprah reveals latest book club pick

We always love when this happens here because Oprah is about to reveal her next book club section Selection is how it's pronounced only on CBS mornings. What is she talking about this time? Hello CBS mornings I'm here to share my next book club selection as we enter fall with a slight crisp in the air and the leaves starting to Turn our next book club selection is perfect to curl up with set in the mountains of the Southern Appalachians from the very first sentence you're going to be intrigued by this epic story of this young boy demon Copperhead by Barbara King solver I'm so glad that she's there with you today to share more about how she crafted this Beautiful incredible story. So get your copy today and join us online at Oprah's book club to share your thoughts Happy reading everybody Barbara King solver Happy reading is a word there Barbara King solver is the author of 11 best-selling books Barbara look at them all lined up looks pretty doesn't it Wow 11 best-selling books and former President Bill Clinton awarded her the National Humanities Medal back in 2000 and we're very proud to say very happy to welcome her here to CBS mornings. Hello, Barbara King solver I'm good to have you in the studio. This is so exciting. You have done it again Done it again. Bravo to you when I first heard about the book. This is how Oprah said it to me She said I found a book that even you're gonna like I Don't know if I should be insulted or flattered by that because I don't always like all of them But she was so right from the moment that from the very first sentence you drew me in But you said you can you you use this book you compare this books to Dickens to tell this story Explain what you mean? Well, this is I come from Southern Appalachia. So, you know this area Yeah, I love it and Appalachia also has its challenges and one of them in recent decades is the opioid epidemic Yes, and the worst of it is that we have a generation of kids who've been orphaned by opioid use disorder and You know as it's sort of the attention of the world moves on I really wanted to tell the story of these kids because it's not over for them and they they live among us I know, you know, we all know these kids, but it's a dark story and it's a hard story to tell it is I wasn't sure readers would want to go there follow me into that dark place since I spent actually a couple of years Trying to get trying to find my way into that house, you know how to tell the story as it happened copperhead is a person We should write that. Yeah, the real name is Damon. Yeah. Yeah His nickname is Damon and he's called copperhead because of his red hair That's his nickname where I come from. Everybody has nicknamed Thing but so I was really frustrated and just by Chance at the end of a UK book tour. I had a weekend Free and I booked myself into this just completely on a whim this in that's in broad stairs It's the the former home of Charles Dickens and it's where he wrote David Copperfield. Yeah, and So my husband and I, you know booked ourselves in and we we had that it was this creaky old mansion on the ocean and We had it all to ourselves and they said sure sure, you know make use of the place to sit wherever you want Including Dickens's study Wow, and so I sat there. I mean Stephen went to bed, you know I sat at Dickens's desk Looking out the window at the view that he you know The the roiling ocean that was in his eyes and I just started feeling his anger Not at me. Yeah, but sort of the anger he channeled in his books because orphans kids thrown away by society That's his whole wheelhouse you were inspired. Yeah. Well, it was more like he he He charged me with this mission he said you got to do this But it seems like everything that could happen to demon does happen to him well, what he told me which was the The key to get into the house was you let the child tell the story Nobody doubts the child. It's just that's the way you tug on the the readers heart and and That was David Copperfield starting with chapter one I am born I said, okay Charles Thank you. Yeah, I sat at that desk and I started this book that night Thank you, well, no, thank you cuz you take us on quite a ride I'm not gonna tell you how it ends Boy, it's something Barbara. We thank you demon. Copperhead is on sale now wherever you like to buy your books. We'll be right back Congratulations second time