Packet 1: Tossup 2

In a novel by this author, a woman brings river water in a Coke bottle for her great-granddaughter’s baptism, but the baby’s father pours it down the sink. An opening passage by this author that describes a picnic and a mother’s sight of a drinking animal begins “imagine a ruin so strange it must never (10[1])have existed.” While driving west, Taylor adopts the Cherokee girl Turtle in a novel by this author that spawned the sequel (10[1])Pigs in Heaven. This author created an orphaned high-school football (10[1])star who develops an OxyContin addiction (10[2])and falls (10[1])for his coach’s daughter Angus, (10[1])a stand-in for Agnes (10[1])Wickfield. A snakebite (10[1])kills Ruth May (-5[1])in this author’s novel (10[1])about the (-5[1])missionary (10[1])Price family (10[1])in the Belgian (10[2])Congo. (10[3])For 10 points, what author (10[1])of The Bean Trees and The Poisonwood Bible adapted David Copperfield to Appalachia (10[1])in Demon Copperhead? ■END■ (10[3]0[1])

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