Overview
Written in a voice thatās alternately humorous, lacerating, and wise, Long Division features two interwoven stories. In the first, itās 2013: after an on-stage meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest, fourteen-year-old Citoyen āCityā Coldson becomes an overnight YouTube celebrity. The next day, heās 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 bookās main characters is also named City Coldsonābut 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.
Cityās two stories ultimately converge in the work shed behind his grandmotherās house, where he discovers the key to Baizeās disappearance. Brilliantly āskewering the disingenuous masquerade of institutional racismā (Publishers Weekly), this dreamlike āsmart, funny, and sharpā (Jesmyn Ward), novel shows the work that young Black Americans must do, while living under the shadow of a history āthat they only gropingly understand and must try to fill in for themselvesā (The Wall Street Journal).
This book title, Long Division (A Novel) - 9781982174828, ISBN: 9781982174828, by Kiese Laymon, published by Scribner (June 8, 2021) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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