![]() ![]() With her inimitable surrealism and insight into teenage experience, A.S. ![]() As the rot just beneath the surface of the Hemmings precious white suburban respectability begins to spread, the far flung grand children gradually find their ways back to each other, just in time to uncover the terrible cost of maintaining the family name. Like the GPS coordinates to a mound of dirt in a New Jersey forest. Like a first class ticket to Jamiaca 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 simple 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 grand children. 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 an upper-middle-class white family in suburban Pennsylvania and the terrible cost the family’s children pay to maintain the family name. ![]()
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