Dig (Unabridged) Dig (Unabridged)

Dig (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

Winner of the Michael L. Printz Medal

★“King’s narrative concerns are racism, patriarchy, colonialism, white privilege, and the ingrained systems that perpetuate them. . . . [Dig] 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

“I’ve never understood white people who can’t admit they’re white. I mean, white isn’t just a color. And maybe that’s the problem for them. White is a passport. It’s a ticket.”
 
Five estranged cousins are lost in a maze of their family’s tangled secrets. 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. “Because we want them to thrive,” Marla always says.
 
But for the Hemmings cousins, “thriving” feels a lot like slowly dying of a poison they started taking the moment they were born. 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.
 
With her inimitable surrealism, award winner A.S. King exposes how a toxic culture of polite white supremacy tears a family apart and how one determined generation can dig its way out.

GENRE
Kids & Young Adults
NARRATOR
AK
A.S. King
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
10:20
hr min
RELEASED
2019
March 26
PUBLISHER
Listening Library
SIZE
321.7
MB

Customer Reviews

Kimberly Sabatini ,

One of the Best Books of 2020

This one blew my mind--a master class in how to write YA and a master class on how to live. My heart soared while I was simultaneously bawling my eyes out. Thank you, A.S. King. Please don't ever stop writing--we need you. <3

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