Barbara Kingsolver has delivered acclaimed bestseller after acclaimed bestseller for decades without letting the pressure of readers’ mounting expectations get to her. All that changed with #DemonCopperhead. Oprah selected the novel as her 98th Book Club pick in 2022. In 2023, it won the Pulitzer. In 2024, nytimes readers crowned it the number one Best Book of the 21st Century. When she returned to the blank page, Barbara decided that the only way forward was to “write something so different it couldn’t be compared.” That led to her new book, #Partita, out now. Tap the link in our bio to read the two-time OBC author barbara.kingsolver reflect on the pressure to follow up “Demon Copperhead,” the hardest lessons she’s learned, and why she feels like she’s finally in her creative prime.