Like selling pot from a fast-food drive-thru window. What does thriving look like? Like carrying a snow shovel everywhere. ‘Because we want them to thrive,’ Marla always says. Only a generation removed from being Pennsylvania potato farmers, property developers Gottfried and Marla Hemmings now sit atop a seven-figure bank account-wealth they’ve declined to pass on to their adult children or teenage grandchildren. She said, “I’ve heard this idea and makes me uncomfortable.” A woman in economy argued with me about this one. The world is a white amusement park and your white skin buys you into it. …I’ve never understood white people who can’t admit they’re white, I mean, white isn’t just a color. Dig is a clever angry story that is very much needed by a world that can often excel in hate speech. Despite being an uncomfortable read, Dig is compelling and leaves readers with a sense of hope for the next generation. In Dig, King peels back the layers of self-entitlement and a toxic white culture to tell the story of a potato-farming family that polluted itself with hate and greed.

Many of the characters in Dig stand in the margins of society King gives a voice to the voiceless while at the same time encouraging such characters to speak for themselves. As with all her stories, there is an ethereal thread running through Dig that jabs at the reader with its honesty and dares you not to believe in the magic of life. King uses her craft as a master storyteller to tell her story from multiple points of view. King has been hard-hitting, but none more than Dig released last month in Australia by Text Publishing.ĭig is the story of one family and the rot or blight within which has the power to destroy. Dig is a clever angry story that is very much needed by a world that can often excel in hate speech.Įvery book that I’ve read by A.S.

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