![]() ![]() Plot points like the grotesque flea circus and the Freak’s magical ability to “flicker” from place to place don’t seem so exotic when placed next to scenes in which a suburban mom polishes her antebellum souvenir. King brings an intense surrealism to Dig’s discussion of racism and respectability politics. ![]() They cut off their kids and left them to their own devices, and now a traditional family gathering threatens to finally expose the extent to which their legacy of harm has eaten away at them all. ![]() These teens are the grandchildren of Gottfried and Marla, a couple who made their wealth developing subdivisions and are now pretty miserable. There’s also First-Class Malcolm, who’s taking care of his terminally ill dad, and Loretta the Flea-Circus Ring Mistress. These are just three threads in this tangled root ball of a story. The Freak-but what exactly is she?-moves between worlds and tries to tie a family together. A girl works the drive-thru at an Arby’s and deals drugs from the window. A boy throws himself into snow shoveling and house painting in an attempt to save for a car that will help him find his dad. In Dig, her latest work of surrealist fiction, she follows five teenagers. King’s novels ( Please Ignore Vera Dietz, Still Life With Tornado) are in another solar system entirely, so it can be hard to give readers a taste of what her stories are like without just handing them the books. ![]()
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