Dig by As King

Dig by As King

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.

A.S. King es la autora de la aclamada novela Ask the Passengers, que gano el Premio Editorial de Los Angeles Times, recibio seis resenas estelares, aparecio en diez listas con -lo mejor del ano- y fue finalista del Premio Literario Lambda. Su libro anterior, Everybody Sees the Ants, recibio seis resenas estelares, fue finalista del Premio Andre Norton y estuvo en el top-ten de las Mejores Ficciones para Adultos Jovenes del 2012, segun la Asociacion de Servicios Bibliotecarios para Adultos Jovenes (Young Adult Library Services Association, YALSA). Tambien es la autora de Ignoren a Vera Diezt, por favor (Destino, 2010), nominado al Premio Edgar y al Premio Michael L. Printz, y de The Dust of 100 Dogs, incluido por la Asociacion de Bibliotecas Americanas (American Library Association, ALA) en su lista de los Mejores Libros para Adultos Jovenes. Cuando se le pregunta acerca de su escritura, King dice: -Algunas personas no saben si mis personajes estan locos o si estan experimentando algo magico. Creo que esa es una descripcion exacta de como me siento todos los dias-. Ella vive en la zona rural de Pensilvania, con su esposo e hijos.

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ISBN 13	9781101994931
ISBN 10	1101994932
Title	Dig
Author	A S King
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2020-06-30
Number of pages	400
Prizes	Winner of Michael L. Printz Award (Young Adult) 2020
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