Dig

2020-06-30 Young Adult Fiction

Author : A.S. King
Release : 2020-06-30
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 932/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Dig by : A.S. King

Download or read book Dig written by A.S. King. This book was released on 2020-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Dig

2015-03-16 Fiction

Author : Cynan Jones
Release : 2015-03-16
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 941/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Dig written by Cynan Jones. This book was released on 2015-03-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jones's sense of place is acute, and his passion for the landscape—for its colors, its creatures, its textures, its scents—is absolutely magnetic."—Sarah Waters "A dark, tense, and vital short novel. . . . Profound, powerful, and utterly absorbing."—The Guardian "It is a book about the essentials: life and death, cruelty and compassion. It is a book that will get in your bones, and haunt you."—Daily Telegraph "Cynan Jones's fourth novel, The Dig, is an extraordinarily powerful work—not in spite of its brevity but because of it. . . . In its marriage of profound lyricism and feeling for place, deep human compassion and unflinching savagery, this brief and beautiful novel is utterly unique."—Financial Times Built of the interlocking fates of a badger-baiter and a farmer struggling through lambing season, The Dig unfolds in a stark rural setting where man, animal, and land are at loggerheads. There is no bucolic pastoral here: this is pure, pared-down rural realism, crackling with compressed energy, from a writer of uncommon gifts. Cynan Jones was born near Aberaeron, Wales, in 1975. He is the author of three novels, The Long Dry (winner of a Betty Trask Award, 2007), Everything I Found on the Beach (2011), and The Dig (2014), winner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. He is also the author of Bird, Blood, Snow (2012), the retelling of a medieval Welsh myth. The Dig is his first novel published in the United States.

Dinosaur Dig

2011 Juvenile Nonfiction

Author : Penny Dale
Release : 2011
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 715/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Dinosaur Dig written by Penny Dale. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dinosaurs from one to ten use construction equipment to dig, shovel, roll, and scrape as they build a fun surprise.

Dig!

2004 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Andrea Griffing Zimmerman
Release : 2004
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 851/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Dig! written by Andrea Griffing Zimmerman. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

The Dig

2016-04-19 Fiction

Author : John Preston
Release : 2016-04-19
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 806/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Dig written by John Preston. This book was released on 2016-04-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BASIS FOR THE NETFLIX FILM STARRING CAREY MULLIGAN, RALPH FIENNES, AND LILY JAMES A literary adventure that tells the story of a priceless buried treasure discovered in England on the eve of World War II In the long, hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war, but on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind. Mrs. Pretty, the widowed owner of the farm, has had her hunch confirmed that the mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary find. This fictional recreation of the famed Sutton Hoo dig follows three months of intense activity when locals fought outsiders, professionals thwarted amateurs, and love and rivalry flourished in equal measure. As the war looms ever closer, engraved gold peeks through the soil, and each character searches for answers in the buried treasure. Their threads of love, loss, and aspiration weave a common awareness of the past as something that can never truly be left behind.

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