The Dig

When Sarajevo-born siblings Antonia and Paul were adopted by a wealthy Midwestern family in the 1990s a series of events with deadly consequences was set in motion. Now, with her career on the line and her idealistic brother missing, Antonia must race against the clock to uncover a sinister secret and prevent history from repeating itself


Antonia has a complicated relationship with the past. After being found as a child in the rubble of a bombed-out apartment in Sarajevo, she and her brother Paul were taken in by the Kings, a family of contractors in the small Midwestern town of Thebes, Minnesota. Eager to escape the stereotype of adopted outsider, Antonia trades small-town Minnesota for a high-powered legal career. But it isn't long before her brother's mysterious disappearance pulls her back home. There, over the course of a single day, Antonia navigates the serpentine bureaucracy of her small-town's justice system, unearthing salacious characters from the past along with decades of secrets and lies, leading to explosive revelations about her adoptive family-and the sinister truth behind her biological mother's death-that will alter the course of her life and change her definition of home forever.

Informed by timely issues of immigration, capitalism, and justice, yet timeless in its themes of love, identity, and competing loyalties, The Dig is a portrait of a woman at odds with her history who is forced to choose between her own ambitions and her love for and loyalty to her idealistic brother.