The Dig - June CC Book Club Selection

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For those worried about a horror classification:

Hill’s work is often compared to that of his father, Stephen King, but it is time we treated him as standing on his own. This book isn’t his take on The Stand, as some have suggested, and it’s not even really a horror novel. Instead, it showcases an apocalypse as unnerving as those of John Wyndham; a society as disturbing in places as that found in Shirley Jackson’s classic The Lottery; and a surviving humanity as beautifully raw as that seen in Emily St John Mandel’s Station Eleven. It focuses on ourselves, rather than whatever is behind the disaster that’s befallen the world, and it tries to talk us through picking up the pieces.