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Title: Long Division
Author: Kiese Laymon
ISBN: 9781982174828
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2021
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 304
Publisher Description: <b>Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Fiction</b> <p/><b>From the author of the critically acclaimed memoir <i>Heavy</i>, comes a "funny, astute, searching" (<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>) debut novel about Black teenagers that is a satirical exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in post-Katrina Mississippi. </b> <p/>Written in a voice that's alternately humorous, lacerating, and wise, <i>Long Division</i> features two interwoven stories. In the first, it's 2013: after an on-stage meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest, fourteen-year-old Citoyen "City" Coldson becomes an overnight YouTube celebrity. The next day, he's sent to stay with his grandmother in the small coastal community of Melahatchie, where a young girl named Baize Shephard has recently disappeared. <p/>Before leaving, City is given a strange book without an author called <i>Long Division</i>. He learns that one of the book's main characters is also named City Coldson--but <i>Long Division</i> is set in 1985. This 1985-version of City, along with his friend and love interest, Shalaya Crump, discovers a way to travel into the future, and steals a laptop and cellphone from an orphaned teenage rapper called...Baize Shephard. They ultimately take these items with them all the way back to 1964, to help another time-traveler they meet to protect his family from the Ku Klux Klan. <p/>City's two stories ultimately converge in the work shed behind his grandmother's house, where he discovers the key to Baize's disappearance. Brilliantly "skewering the disingenuous masquerade of institutional racism" (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>), this dreamlike "smart, funny, and sharp" (Jesmyn Ward), novel shows the work that young Black Americans must do, while living under the shadow of a history "that they only gropingly understand and must try to fill in for themselves" (<i>The</i> <i>Wall Street Journal</i>).
Author: Kiese Laymon
ISBN: 9781982174828
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2021
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 304
Publisher Description: <b>Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Fiction</b> <p/><b>From the author of the critically acclaimed memoir <i>Heavy</i>, comes a "funny, astute, searching" (<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>) debut novel about Black teenagers that is a satirical exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in post-Katrina Mississippi. </b> <p/>Written in a voice that's alternately humorous, lacerating, and wise, <i>Long Division</i> features two interwoven stories. In the first, it's 2013: after an on-stage meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest, fourteen-year-old Citoyen "City" Coldson becomes an overnight YouTube celebrity. The next day, he's sent to stay with his grandmother in the small coastal community of Melahatchie, where a young girl named Baize Shephard has recently disappeared. <p/>Before leaving, City is given a strange book without an author called <i>Long Division</i>. He learns that one of the book's main characters is also named City Coldson--but <i>Long Division</i> is set in 1985. This 1985-version of City, along with his friend and love interest, Shalaya Crump, discovers a way to travel into the future, and steals a laptop and cellphone from an orphaned teenage rapper called...Baize Shephard. They ultimately take these items with them all the way back to 1964, to help another time-traveler they meet to protect his family from the Ku Klux Klan. <p/>City's two stories ultimately converge in the work shed behind his grandmother's house, where he discovers the key to Baize's disappearance. Brilliantly "skewering the disingenuous masquerade of institutional racism" (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>), this dreamlike "smart, funny, and sharp" (Jesmyn Ward), novel shows the work that young Black Americans must do, while living under the shadow of a history "that they only gropingly understand and must try to fill in for themselves" (<i>The</i> <i>Wall Street Journal</i>).
