Barbara Kingsolver returns with ‘Partita,’ her first novel since ‘Demon Copperhead’

NEW YORK (AP) — For her first novel since the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Demon Copperhead,” Barbara Kingsolver is taking on a subject she rarely discussed in public while growing up in a small Kentucky town: classical music.

Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced Thursday that “Partita” will be published Oct. 6. (Faber will release the book two days later in the UK). Like “Demon Copperhead,” “The Poisonwood Bible” and other Kingsolver novels, it’s centered on a rural community.