Dig - Couverture souple

King, A. S.

 
9781925773521: Dig
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1925773523 ISBN 13 : 9781925773521
Editeur : The Text Publishing Company, 2019

Synopsis

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. 'Because we want them to thrive,' Marla always says. What does thriving look like? Like carrying a snow shovel everywhere. Like selling pot from a fast-food drive-thru window. Like a first-class ticket to Jamaica between cancer treatments. Like a flea circus in a trailer. Like the GPS coordinates to a mound of dirt in a New Jersey forest. As the rot beneath the surface of the Hemmings' suburban respectability begins to spread, the far-flung grandchildren gradually find their ways back to one another, just in time to uncover the terrible cost of maintaining the family name. With her inimitable surrealism and insight into the teenage experience, YA master A.S. King explores how a corrosive culture of polite, affluent white supremacy tears a family apart and how one determined generation can save themselves.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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. 'Because we want them to thrive,' Marla always says. What does thriving look like? Like carrying a snow shovel everywhere. Like selling pot from a fast-food drive-thru window. Like a first-class ticket to Jamaica between cancer treatments. Like a flea circus in a trailer. Like the GPS coordinates to a mound of dirt in a New Jersey forest. As the rot beneath the surface of the Hemmings' suburban respectability begins to spread, the far-flung grandchildren gradually find their ways back to one another, just in time to uncover the terrible cost of maintaining the family name. With her inimitable surrealism and insight into the teenage experience, YA master A.S. King explores how a corrosive culture of polite, affluent white supremacy tears a family apart and how one determined generation can save themselves.

Revue de presse

'Brutally candid, Dig is well worth the intellectual and emotional investment.
- Shelf Awareness

'Purely mesmerizing.'
- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

'Cultivates hope in a younger generation that's wiser and stronger than its predecessors.'
- Booklist

'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 Review

'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 the magic of life...King gives a voice to the voiceless while at the same time encouraging such characters to speak for themselves.' -- Nadia King

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Éditeur
The Text Publishing Company
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1925773523
ISBN 13 
9781925773521
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
400
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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ISBN 10 :  1101994916 ISBN 13 :  9781101994917
Editeur : Dutton Books for Young Readers, 2019
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