
Their grandparents, former potato farmers Gottfried and Marla Hemmings, managed to trade digging spuds for developing subdivisions and now they sit atop a million-dollar bank account-wealth they’ve refused to pass on to their adult children or their five teenage grandchildren. It’s a ticket.”įive estranged cousins are lost in a maze of their family’s tangled secrets.

“I’ve never understood white people who can’t admit they’re white. will speak profoundly to a generation of young people who are waking up to the societal sins of the past and working toward a more equitable future.”- Horn Book, starred review


★“King’s narrative concerns are racism, patriarchy, colonialism, white privilege, and the ingrained systems that perpetuate them. . . .
