CanIHelpYou? would rather chance arrest than take money from her affluent but racist parents, who don’t approve of their daughter’s best friend because he is black. “He kept shoveling for 70 pages and got me nowhere.” So she put the idea away and started a story about a girl, named CanIHelpYou?, who sells drugs alongside the roast beef sandwiches at an Arby’s drive-through window. Still, all she had at first was one teenager and a snow shovel. “I grew up in a place where the only thing that was considered racism was extremism and I saw a deeper problem in how we accidentally pass on normalized racism to our children.” “I wanted to write about whiteness,” said King, a Pennsylvania native who married an Irishman and spent a decade in Ireland before returning to the U.S. Though there are multiple narrators, when King began writing Dig she had only one: a teenage boy whose distinguishing characteristic was an ever-present snow shovel. King, Dig (Dutton, Mar.), is about a lot of things: racism, poverty, drug abuse, terminal illness, domestic violence, and the tragic death of a teenager. The latest novel from award-winning writer A.S.
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