How Gold Diggers finds the horror in petty high school betrayal
In the Vox Book Club’s May pick, sin is petty and low-stakes. That’s what makes the book work.
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Sanjena Sathian’s
Gold Diggers, the Vox Book Club pick for May, is about a lot of things: being Indian American, alchemy, ambition, heists. But it is also, on a deep level, a novel about sin. Sin is the hinge on which the story’s plot turns. It is the thing that closes the door on our protagonists’ innocently cruel adolescence and brings him into numbing, corrupted adulthood.