★ 'This visceral examination of humanity’s flaws and complexity cultivates hope in a younger generation that’s wiser and stronger than its predecessors.”- Booklist, starred review ★ ' trademark surrealism and trenchant prose will speak profoundly to a generation of young people who are waking up to the societal sins of the past and working toward a more equitable future.”- The Horn Book, starred review Anyone who thinks YA books can’t also be great literature needs to read this author.”- Irish Times “King’s fierce empathy for young people is evident throughout, matched by her gift for a brand of weirdness that somehow manages to capture the intensity, wonder and pain of being alive. An incredible addition to an already impressive body of work.'-Erin Entrada Kelly, New York Times bestselling author and Newbery medalist Dig will make you question the confines of your comfort zone-if you have one. King challenges readers from the first page to the last. Printz MedalĪ Finalist for the 2020 Los Angeles Times Book Prize King exposes how a toxic culture of polite white supremacy tears a family apart and how one determined generation can dig its way out.

With her inimitable surrealism, award winner A.S.

As the rot beneath the surface of the Hemmings’ white suburban respectability destroys the family from within, the cousins find their ways back to one another, just in time to uncover the terrible cost of maintaining the family name. “Because we want them to thrive,” Marla always says.īut for the Hemmings cousins, “thriving” feels a lot like slowly dying of a poison they started taking the moment they were born. Their grandparents, former potato farmers Gottfried and Marla Hemmings, managed to trade digging spuds for developing subdivisions and now they sit atop a million-dollar bank account-wealth they’ve refused to pass on to their adult children or their five teenage grandchildren. It’s a ticket.”įive estranged cousins are lost in a maze of their family’s tangled secrets.

“I’ve never understood white people who can’t admit they’re white. will speak profoundly to a generation of young people who are waking up to the societal sins of the past and working toward a more equitable future.”- Horn Book, starred review ★“King’s narrative concerns are racism, patriarchy, colonialism, white privilege, and the ingrained systems that perpetuate them. . . .

Dig. by A.S. King