![]() ![]() King explores how a corrosive culture of polite, affluent white supremacy tears a family apart and how one determined generation can save themselves. With her inimitable surrealism and insight into the teenage experience, YA master A. As the rot beneath the surface of the Hemmings' suburban respectability begins to spread, the far-flung grandchildren gradually find their ways back to one another, just in time to uncover the terrible cost of maintaining the family name. King fans know to expect the unexpected, and they'll be richly rewarded with this intricate, heartfelt, readable concoction.' - BCCB, starred review 'Sometimes, once you start digging, you find the poisonous parts, but you also find the fruit that will keep you alive. ![]() Like the GPS coordinates to a mound of dirt in a New Jersey forest. Like a first-class ticket to Jamaica between cancer treatments. Like selling pot from a fast-food 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 Pennsylvania potato farmers, property developers Gottfried and Marla Hemmings now sit atop a seven-figure bank account-wealth they've declined to pass on to their adult children or teenage grandchildren. King about tangled family secrets and white supremacy in suburban Pennsylvania, for readers of Angie Thomas' The Hate U Give.
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