I am presently in that pile-of-pieces place with my 2021īook, and it is not a fun process. Pieces went together until the last one finally snapped into place.

With Dig, I knew I was writing about whiteness, but I had no idea how the Sometimes it takes years to figure out what I’m even writing about. Scenes until they become a giant ten-thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle that I’m left The characters and they litter my desk and my dreams and my study table with Your writing is profoundly original, how do you get an idea for a book like Dig? Our questions appear in bold and her replies follow. What a great cover! The Teen and I were very excited to not only host this cover reveal, but to have the opportunity to ask author A. Congratulations!! The cover is designed by Samira Iravani. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature from the American Library Association. You’ll note the shiny gold medallion for the Michael L. Like the GPS coordinates to a mound of dirt in a New Jersey forest.Īs the rot just beneath the surface of the Hemmings precious white suburban respectability begins to spread, the far flung grand children gradually find their ways back to each other, just in time to uncover the terrible cost of maintaining the family name.Īnd now, the new paperback cover. Like a first class ticket to Jamaica between cancer treatments. Like selling pot at the Arby’s 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 simple Pennsylvania potato farmers, Gottfried and Marla Hemmings managed to trade digging spuds for developing subdivisions and now sit atop a seven-figure bank account, wealth they’ve declined to pass on to their adult children or their teenage grand children. These are the five teenagers lost in the Hemmings family’s maze of tangled secrets. The Shoveler, the Freak, CanIHelpYou?, Loretta the Flea-Circus Ring Mistress, and First-Class Malcolm. In June of this year the paperback is being released with a new cover and a shiny gold medal sticker indicating this honor. It was a well deserved honor for one of the best and most complex teen novels of 2019. King won the 2020 Printz Award for Dig, a novel that asks us to dig beneath the layers of several teens whose lives we find are intertwined in very unique ways. Today at Teen Librarian Toolbox we are very honored to get to share with you the new cover for the paperback release of Dig, the award winning novel by A. The Teen read an early advance copy of Dig back in 2019 and this is what she had to say about it in a post it note review.

Dig by king