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Review - Dig by A. S. King

For my Michael L. Printz Award winner, I chose Dig by A. S. King. This story follows the grandchildren of Marla and Gottfried, two former potato farmers who became wealthy but refused to share that wealth with their children and are now seeing the ways their choices have torn their family apart. It’s recommended for grades nine through twelve (NoveList, n.d.). This book is highly regarded for the way it navigates racism, classism, and privilege for a teen audience. While I agree with that praise, I found the audio book to be quite a slog to get through. The book is technically strong, but a majority of the book fell flat for me. The characters are realistic, but often annoying (particularly Canihelpyou? who is so pretentious it hurts). The plots are realistic and handle important topics, but some are way less interesting than others. Each aspect of the novel fits into the overall themes effectively, but I just didn’t enjoy listening to this.

I must note before anything else that I hate audio books. I’ve tried them a few times and I simply hate the way they’re read, even if I speed up the recording. This book was not an exception, which is likely why I have so many problems with it. When I told a coworker I was listening to this audio book and it wasn’t resonating with me, she was shocked and immediately handed me a print copy. I’m so glad she did this, because looking through the pages made me realize how important the layout of the chapters and paragraphs are to this book. Until I was reading reviews, I didn’t realize that the book is written in a surrealist style (Jensen, 2018), and flipping through the print book I saw how King uses layout to clarify the train of thought prose. Audio books are wonderful for struggling, busy, or reluctant readers, but I think this is the kind of book that should be read in print whenever possible.

The book is technically strong- the characters and plots feel mostly realistic (ghost cousins excepted) and neatly support the novel’s overall theme. However, some characters are borderline unbearable and some of the plot moments pale in comparison to others. I particularly had an issue with Canihelpyou? (who I will call Katie because I think “Canihelpyou?” is annoying), a weed-dealing rich girl who constantly looks down on everyone around her. Her angst is not unjustified. Her mother is a racist who tells Katie to stop seeing her best friend Ian because he’s mixed-race and uses money as a means of control over Katie. However, when Katie interacts with anyone who’s not Ian, she expresses nothing but disdain despite not really knowing anyone beyond their drug order. She presents herself as so perceptive, but all she really does is project her own biases onto others. At the end, there is a somewhat satisfying moment where she comes to the realization that she’s no better than anyone, but it doesn’t make up for her being so pretentious for the previous two hundred and fifty pages. The other characters are not nearly so irksome in my opinion and are fully fleshed out, so I would say King does a wonderful job creating characters that have effective arcs for expressing the importance of breaking racist and classist behavior cycles.

The plot in this novel largely focuses on the family coming back together after being torn apart by greed and resentment for so long. The most interesting parts of the book to me were the parts where the children and grandchildren interacted with Marla and had to navigate her casual racism and greed. Growing up in the South, there are a lot of people I know to be good people who have internalized aspects of white supremacy without realizing it. I struggled for a long time in my teens to know how to interact with those people and the scenes with Marla would have made me feel seen and supported as a teen. However, almost everything else in the book fell flat for me. It all neatly ties into the resolution and the overall themes of the book, but they were not nearly as interesting as the moments where characters are directly confronted with their relatives’ racism and must navigate that without causing the rift in their family to grow even larger.

Many of my critiques are a matter of personal taste, to be fair, and since I understand how each element is well-crafted and feeds into the novel’s larger ideas, I still recommend it. I read several other reviews to try and understand why this book wasn’t resonating with me, and I ultimately think I would have appreciated it much more if I had consumed it under better conditions.

References

Jensen, K. (2018, September 26). Book review: Dig by A. S. King, an important reflection on white privilege in YA literature. School Library Journal. https://teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2018/09/26/book-review-dig-by-a-s-king-an-important-reflection-on-white-privilege-in-ya-literature/.

King, A. S. (2019). Dig. Dutton Books.

NoveList. (n.d.). Dig. https://web.p.ebscohost.com/novp/detail?vid=2&sid=29a76800-e19b-4817-8644-049a9e89fbee%40redis&bdata=JnNpdGU9bm92cC1saXZl#AN=10760987&db=neh.

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