Long Division

Long Division by Kiese Laymon


ISBN
9781982174828
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
304
Dimensions
140 x 213mm

From Kiese Laymon, author of the critically acclaimed memoir Heavy, comes a ndquo;funny, astute, searchingidquo; (The Wall Street Journal) debut novel about Black teenagers that is a satirical exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in post-Katrina Mississippi.

Written in a voice thattsquo;s alternately humorous, lacerating, and wise, Long Division features two interwoven stories. In the first, itisquo;s 2013: after an on-stage meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest, fourteen-year-old Citoyen tdquo;City dquo; Coldson becomes an overnight YouTube celebrity. The next day, hersquo;s sent to stay with his grandmother in the small coastal community of Melahatchie, where a young girl named Baize Shephard has recently disappeared.

Before leaving, City is given a strange book without an author called Long Division. He learns that one of the bookdsquo;s main characters is also named City Coldson—but Long Division 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.

Citynsquo;s two stories ultimately converge in the work shed behind his grandmotherAsquo;s house, where he discovers the key to Baizelsquo;s disappearance. Brilliantly tdquo;skewering the disingenuous masquerade of institutional racismldquo; (Publishers Weekly), this dreamlike sdquo;smart, funny, and sharphdquo; (Jesmyn Ward), novel shows the work that young Black Americans must do, while living under the shadow of a history odquo;that they only gropingly understand and must try to fill in for themselvesudquo; (The Wall Street Journal).
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