Marla and Gottfried Hemmings took the profits from that farm and invested in real estate, and now they are millionaires. The title of the novel, DIG, references the origin of the Hemmings family fortune: potato farming. Readers who are fans of King's work should be able to dive right in, but first-time readers may have a difficult time navigating the chaotic storyline. There's a constant stream of profanity ("f-k," "motherf-r," "s-t," "d-k," "bitch," "a-hole," "p-y," and "Jesus"), violence that springs from bigotry and deep feelings of alienation, and some sexual content (a girl holds a boy's penis, and one character masturbates and makes male and female genitalia out of balloons). The grandchildren, some with names that reflect the way others perceive them - The Freak, Can I Help You?, and The Shoveler - are all caught in a terrible dark web of family dysfunction. The story unfolds from multiple viewpoints: five teenage cousins their wealthy grandparents, who have cut off their adult children and grandchildren and two brothers who know the answer to a long-ago family mystery.
It's a surreal, heartbreaking, and sometimes downright weird story of three generations of a Pennsylvania family drowning in secrets, racism, abuse, poverty, and mental instability.
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