Name: Dig
Rating: 4.085106382978723 (47 reviews)
ISBN: 9781101994917

A. S. King

Five white teenage cousins who are struggling with the failures and racial ignorance of their dysfunctional parents and their wealthy grandparents, reunite for Easter.

Alexa M

this was very odd but very interesting and i enjoyed my time reading it.

Rachel Kanyid

Jeannette Ordas

Wow. An incredible book about generational trauma and systemic racism and it's effects on the lives of one (well two) family/ies. This book could seem hopeless and a bit of a bummer, but it's not. The kids, with some insight and a bit of work, will be alright. Read this!!

Kailey Rios

this was definitely a very weird book but i kind of loved it??

Lauren Tabor

I have to start out by saying I really wish I didn't listen to this in audiobook format. I think reading it in its physical form would have drastically changed my views on this book. There were a lot of characters and storylines to keep track of and it was really hard to do while listening. I should've stopped the audiobook but I was so excited to just get to read it I wanted to push through. 

Knowing myself I think this would've been a 4 or 5 star book for me if I didn't listen to it and that's on me. This was such an interesting book. The characters were so unique and wild and their whole family was a hot mess. The twist got me good...and looking back I'm not even sure it was supposed to be as shocking as it was or if I was just so confused because I was listening to it that I didn't catch important things. Either way I really enjoyed it. I kind of wish the ending was fleshed out a bit more. It felt abrupt to me, I wish we got a little more, I think.

Fraser Simons

Well written and different. Interesting metaphors and symbolism tackling difficult to discuss topics and features nice, trim prose. Though not particularly evocative, the structure and devices more than make up for it.

Amanda Kordeliski

Some of the most brilliant YA I've ever read was written by A.S. King. Sometimes though, the stretch from realistic fiction to speculative is so far that I think you lose the audience you're writing for. This is one of those. For my own personal reading, this is a four star book. It was a struggle to get into, but once I began to see how each of the characters were connected I really liked it. For my high school kids, this is a near impossible sell. I don't feel this is really a book that is written for teens, but adults who read YA lit.

mia ¿

** spoiler alert **
           i gave this a 4.75 on storygraph but that's not possible here so it gets a very nice 5 stars :)

dig. may actually deserve 5 stars. i'm not sure. i need to think about it more. i just finished it today while i was working at the library and the last 100 pages really turned this book around. i had genuinely no idea what was going on until the end, when all the cousins were finally reunited. being confused usually makes me hate a book, but everything felt so odd and strange that i felt compelled enough to keep reading this book despite my confusion.

and, wow. the ending of this book!!! fuck. i've owned this book for just over a year and always felt bad for putting it off. i honestly think i read it at the perfect time tho. if i had read it last year while i was still living at home, i wouldn't have realized how relatable the story is to my own life. there are certain issues with your family that you can only really begin to process when you have moved out and are living with people who had different upbringings. and moving out and living away from your family for the first time can be the first time you are really given the space to unlearn all the damaging behaviors/beliefs/opinions of your family.

i seriously want to make everyone in my family read this book now because it's so important!!! the discussion of intergenerational trauma! the importance of trying to address this! the bond shared by the youngest generation! the discussion of mental health issues being hereditary! the acknowledgement that families do shitty things and this just creates a cycle in which the children do shitty things to their children! what the fuck! i'm still so fresh off reading this book that i have absolutely no coherent thoughts about this book!

basically, what i took away from this book is that the sins of the past can be healed, and it starts with you. you can't wait for the older generation to fix things. they won't. you need to fix things, now. or we're all screwed.

also, i love the message that your family can fuck you up in a such vastly different ways, but ultimately your family has shaped you so much that you will never truly escape from them. wild shit.

now i just wish i owned the original hardcover edition of this book. the colors! the art style! i'd die for a copy of it truly.

Cameron Austin

I think this would be a better read if I had a physical copy compared to an audiobook

Jayarna La Bozzetta

This should be studied in schools. There is so much to unpack here. Wow, just wow.

A.S. King

A searing and dynamic novel from YA master A.S. King about tangled family secrets and white supremacy in suburban Pennsylvania, for readers of Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give

Lena

Zoe Murphy

Wow, this really hurt. Please pick up this book and then learn to help fight the systematic racism in our country (America). Or vice versa. Just do both.

Dani C

This book is very intense and HEAVILY political. Not my jam, but I can see how others may enjoy this. I kept getting annoyed by the white characters talking about race and the rich characters talking about poverty. Irony tool, sure. But also defeating the purpose of the message a bit.

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