Until one day she starts having visions of a disturbing future and she decides to write down her visions and do her damnedest to make sure these things never happen. I t is about a girl whose mother committed suicide when she was young and she fears that her destiny may hold the same thing. By the title, this book promised to be different than the other three, with a Sci-Fi aspect to it, I thought. Other works by the author and a few of my thoughts: But if the reader is patient, the disparate parts come together and there is definitely a feeling that the characters, so hopeless in the beginning, may be able to DIG (get it?) out of their situation and a brighter future is on the horizon. This will be a difficult book to recommend because it is so weird, so surreal. Where all of her books attack problems from a unique vantage point, this one really highlights the issues of racism and its many ugly tentacles. King is a brilliant writer, so sharp and precise at getting her points across in a new way. The surreal text sets the issue on its edge, causing the reader to look at the problem in a new way. King, in the author's notes, asks readers to confront racism in all its forms, many we never even think of as problems. The poison runs deep and destroys a family from the inside out. One questions the information in textbooks as biased and racist, another thinks that blood from a black person is different than blood from a white person, another uses her friendship with a biracial boy as a way to get back at her mom, while another boy is befriended by a man during the winter so he doesn't see his racist tattoo until spring when the coats come off. Each character, most we don't even know their names until late in the book, confronts the parent for the ugliness and scars left behind from the horrors of racism. Poverty, hatred, family violence, and disenfranchisement are the results. Review: (NEW) At its core Dig, a deep and confusing surreal novel, confronts the reality of a family who is deeply poisoned by racism. As 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. 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.

If she lifts it, I feel I have to say one thing, if she lowers it, I have to say another. Marla Hemmings is hiding neon-colored plastic Easter eggs in the front flower bed.

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