Winner of the Michael L. Printz Medal
â âKingâs 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.ââHorn Book, starred review
âIâve never understood white people who canât admit theyâre white. I mean, white isnât just a color. And maybe thatâs the problem for them. White is a passport. Itâs a ticket.â
Five estranged cousins are lost in a maze of their familyâs 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 accountâwealth theyâve refused to pass on to their adult children or their five teenage grandchildren. âBecause we want them to thrive,â Marla always says.
But for the Hemmings cousins, âthrivingâ 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 Hemmingsâ 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.
Categories:
- Politics & Social Sciences
- Politics & Government
- Specific Topics
- Censorship
- Specific Topics
- Politics & Government
Publisher : Dutton Books for Young Readers
Author : King, A.S.
Language : English
Published :2019-03-26
Number Of Pages : 400
Binding : Hardcover
ISBN-10 : 1101994916
ISBN-13 : 9781101994917
Item weight : 1.1 lb
Dimensions : 1.3 in x 6 in x 8.3 in
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