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 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 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 grandchildren. 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. King's eleventh book is a surreal and searing dive into the tangled secrets of a wealthy white family in suburban Pennsylvania and the terrible cost the family's children pay to maintain the family name. Printz AwardĪcclaimed master of the YA novel A.S.
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